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Brindisi and Rome were both very strong empires during the first century. They were strong in education, military and technology; because of this they both rose to become powerful and significant historical figures. The Brindisian and Roman empires lasted long as well as the fact that they lasted a significant amount of time do to the fact that they had the three key facts to lead to the rise of there empires education, military and technology. Rome and Brindizie were very strong and powerful because they had a next to unstoppable and extremely well disciplined military. For example, their diet shows us much about the Roman nutritional ideas. Naturally the officers of the army enjoyed a more versatile diet. Whenever possible the monotonous army diet was naturally supplemented with whatever came to hand such as pork, fish, chicken, cheese, fruit or vegetables. But the basic ration of frumentum always formed the basis of their diet. 1 Archaeologists working along Hadrian's Wall in Northern Britain discovered records for the household of a commander of a fort from around 100 AD. These records list choice cuts of pork, even piglet, chicken, venison, anchovies, oysters, eggs, radishes, apples, lentils, beans, lard and butter. In mil