Roman Principate

Germanic groups defeated three Roman legions in a major setback for Roman expansion east of the Rhine.

The Roman execution of Jesus of Nazareth in Jerusalem during the prefecture of Pontius Pilate.

Roman forces besieged the Masada stronghold during the concluding phase of the First Jewish–Roman War.

Boudica led an uprising against Roman rule in Britain.

Jewish preacher whose ministry and crucifixion form the narrative center of the film.

Roman prefect of Judea who presided over the authority responsible for Jesus’s crucifixion.

Roman emperor from 54 to 68 CE whose reign forms the political setting for the story and whose government persecuted Christians in Rome after the Great Fire.

Capital of the Roman Empire.

The major political and religious center of Judea and the setting for much of the film’s story.

The kingdom whose political independence from England is the central issue of the narrative.

The kingdom attempting to exercise control over Scotland during the conflict.

Ancient fortress and archaeological site in Israel.

Pompeii was a Roman city in Campania near the Bay of Naples, destroyed and buried during the 79 CE eruption of Mount Vesuvius.