The Roman Timeline? Well, the Roman Timeline is cool because it's just like my normal timeline but it uses the Roman Calendar, which dates from the year 753 BC instead of 0, because of Jesus. April 21 753 BC is the birthday of Rome, but to them it was in the year Shnitz, just like with Rome.

The way this Timeline is set up makes 750 to 650 BC the first century, even though Rome's birthday is in 753 because I want to keep it symmetrical. This timeline contains 1,000 years of history, which in Roman years takes it to 247 AD. The Timeline has 2 tables that cover 500 years with 5 100 year columns which in Roman years represent the years 750 to 250 BC for the 1st table, and 250 BC to 250 AD for the 2nd table.

I chose to do it for 20 years to cover 1,000 years because I can picture myself doing it for 20 years, like a career, and the first 1,000 years of Roman history covers the most successful part of Roman history. The empire was still at its height in the year 247, but the seeds for its decline were present in the generals from the outer provinces now in control of the emperor-ship, which would later cause them to abandon the city at the capital and thirst for power instead of following the law.

The Roman Calendar was Europe's main calendar until Charlemagne revamped the Roman empire in an Christian style in the year 800, which was the Roman calendar year 1553. Maybe I could extend the show to the entire length of the Roman Calendar, but if I did that I would be 82 years old by that time.

To the left is the table that shows the 20 centuries in the 1,000 years that this Timeline represents. 1,000 years is a good time frame to wrap our heads around. It is 10 centuries, and each century contains 3 generations of 33 years. So 1,000 years is 30 generations, which is a familiar number to us. When we string all these familiar time scales together, we will be able to understand the whole 1,000 years as a complete concept, and voila, we have an understanding of a 1,000 years of the Western world transforming from the dawn of history into a world that is more or less recognizable to us today.

If the United States of America, the new Rome, follows the same schedule as Rome, then we are due for a social revolution to transform this country from an effectual kingdom to a true democracy in three years, because it took 244 years to get from the foundation of Rome in 753 BC to have their revolution in 509, and 244 years from 1776 is 2020.