What Was the Roman Empire Like?

At its peak, in the early second century a d rome was an empire that stretched from the borderland of persia all way to britannia in the west. It had a code of citizenship which bound certain people within the romanemp to the imperial cause. An abstraction as well as a territorial reality, it was a slave state. One of the few purest slave states in history. The legacy of slavery from the roman empire, even after it broke up, was something tha was very important in the midle ages.