This ancient Rome documentary, an ancient war documentary, is about the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and covers how Gaius Marius, a Roman general who had no connection with aristocracy won the barbarian tribes. Ancient Rome from a small republic, it grows into one of the greatest empires ever known lasting for over six hundred years. As its height it stretches from London to Baghdad, projecting its power with the first professional army and creating the model of the Western Civilization. And yet when the Empire begins to falter, it collapses with shocking speed as it takes only a hundred years for the imperial edifices of Rome to vanish like smoke. Swept away by the barbarian invasions. How did this happen?