The Roman Empire covered the following countries:
Western Europe
: Italy, Malta, Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland south of the river Rhine, southern Germany and part of central Germany, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Austria and England and Wales.
Eastern Europe:
western Hungary, part of western Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Macedonia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and a slither of western Ukraine.
Asia:
Turkey, Cyprus, Armenia, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, Jordan, and the northern part of the coast of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia. Sometimes the empire also included Iraq.
Africa:
Egypt, the coastal part of Libya, Tunisia, the coastal part of Algeria, and northern Morocco.
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It borrowed a LOT from Greece. The Roman Empire also incorporated culture from other areas that they conquered.
The emperor of the Franks who conquered much of Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire was Charles the Great, also known as Charlemagne.
The areas to the west of the Rhine, the south of the Danube and some adjecent areas were in the Roman Empire.
The constant wars of the Roman Empire were extremely expensive for a failing Roman economy. They also cost them a lot of soldiers and ranks had to be filled with soldiers from the people who they had conquered.
The First Crusades traveled east and conquered 3/5 cities in Eurasia. Two cities in Europe were not conquered, and three cities in the Asia Minor were conquered. They traveled through the Holy Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire.