During the period (31 BC-476 AD) the Roman Empire had been ruled by a series of Roman emperors who had been increasingly dependent on the highly structured state of bureaucracy. The Gupta/Mauryan period (320 BC-520 AD) was an imperial power based on family lineage. The Roman heartland was centered in Italy even after Italy was conquered, it still remained on that single peninsula which had been bounded by the Mediterranean Sea and the Alps mountains. As for the Maurya Empire, it was located in India, but the empire reached its greatest extent in the north-west of Afghanistan and in the east in the Bay of Bengal, and sometimes also in the Deccan peninsula towards the south. The Guptas first started in the Ganges valley due to a marriage that took place. Rome had more detailed evidence left behind than the Gupta/Mauryan empires had for personal records. Each of these empires was able to establish military power, administrative centers, and currency during their period of rule. One similarity between Rome and the Gupta/Maurya Empires is that they had regulated the language for everyone in their Empires, while the difference is that the Roman Empire had centralized power which caused rebellions, as with the Gupta/Maurya Empires, it gave more of their power to the needs of local government. From the beginning, Rome had been a military state, it was central to its life and it excelled in the technique of organization and technology. Because the Romans had established a formal language, they were able to communicate with each other. The Romans had conquered everything they saw weakness in and this had ultimately made their empire as large as 60 million people. Their militia strategy… half the paper… not power. As for the Gupta/Mauryan Empire, they had the religions of Hinduism and Buddhism in their empire. For all Empires, as their religions had become an important part of their beliefs, each Empire's administrative government had coaxed those beliefs as well. Administrative governments were the basis of orders for the kingdom, which is where the leaders were located and where most of their currency went, for each empire. Since Rome had overextended itself in terms of military and economic wealth, there were rebellions against their Empire and in time the Roman Empire ended. As for the Gupta/Maurya empires, they decided to give more political power to the government based on family lineage. As members of the ruling family died, they became weaker and their empires eventually ended.