The complete Mediterranean basin was effectively Roman. The way the Roman Empire developed ... took the areas to the east of the Sea of Galilee ... the area now thought of as the Golan Heights ...

Rome - and the Western Roman Empire - fell in 476 AD ... and Greece - and included much of the land around the Mediterranean Sea. It was thought that plagues and climate change in the 6th century ...

Pirates infested the eastern Mediterranean Sea and often raided coastal settlements until their defeat in 67 B.C. in a ...