Banana Republic

While Julius Caesar was back in the italic lands and he was making sure his political business would be settled correctly, the Belgic tribes, the Belgae, were planning to attack the Roman army. The Belgic tribes were afraid of the Roman army slowly conquering the whole of Gaul, as they already possessed the south. The Belgic tribes figured that the Roman army would eventually reach northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands, where the Belgic tribes lived. The ideas of the Belgic tribes were…

2.4 Positive impacts of sand mining and gravel extraction worldwide Sand and gravel had been a useful natural resource for thousands of years worldwide and are fundamental to human existence. Today, demand for sand and gravel has increased. Mining operators in conjunction with resource agencies need to work hard and make sure the extraction is done responsibly. Schaetzl (1990) discussed sand and gravel as crucial resources to economic development activities when making aggregate in United…

It was not until the first century BCE, with the Roman orator Cicero, that Greco-Roman thought had its first advocate of a fully developed theory of just war. His De Officiis deals extensively with what constitutes a just reason for war as well as just conduct within war. Although Cicero's reasoning and examples derive entirely from Roman history, the passage bears a striking resemblance to the fullest biblical explication of just war, the 20th chapter of Deuteronomy. Perhaps the most…

1 ANCIENT ROME The history of Ancient Rome is divided into "three broad categories: the kingdom of Rome (beginning in the 8th century B.C.), the period of the Republic (beginning in 509 BC) and the period of the Empire (beginning in 27 BC)." There was the expansion of Rome, and politics was a game for the wealthy political families. There have been different views about this Roman era and what constitutes "good society?" It is the hope that this essay will allow the reader clarity and…

Many people around the world are aware who Alexander The Great was, but few are familiar with his story. Alexander The Great is considered to be one of the most successful leaders in history. With his philosophical intellect and his ruthless ways, he conquered nations others failed to conquer. Alexander the Great was a genius and a great military leader. EARLY LIFE Alexander’s parents were Philip II of Macedon and his wife Olympians. Alexander did not see his father often because his dad…

state of post World War 1 Germany, you might be lead to believe that the Weimar Republic and its failures led to the rise of Nazism. However, in Modris Ekstein’s Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age, he argues otherwise. True, that the Weimar Republic was crippled due to the Great Depression and political infighting, but Ekstein argues that art played a subtle role in the fall of the Republic. Ekstein’s chapter, The Issue, introduces us to Otto Wacker whom was…

Effects of the Rivalry on Borromini The rivalry between these two men, Borromini and Bernini, saw each one of them trying to come up with new styles in order to outshine the other. The competition towards determining who is better than the other became stiffer. Following the rivalry between him and Bernini, Borromini decided to work on his own as independent contractor. Therefore, he abandoned the St Peters project that he was doing in conjunction with Bernini and claimed that Bernini had…

In the novel, “The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Noir; A dominican American who makes fition books. In regards to plot this was taking place in Paterson, New Jersey where theauthor is born and raised and deals with the Dominican republic experience under dictator Rafalel Trujillo. The book itself is narrorated by characters who incorporate the perception of Dominican Masculinity, culture and language. Consequently the book narrorates each characters life experience through child…

In From Imperium to Imperialism, Mattingly argues that the majority of the scholarship of the Roman Empire has overlooked the brutal, autocratic nature of the Empire and that the historiography would benefit from researchers being more critical of their preconceptions of Roman glory and imperium. Mattingly believes, contrary to many scholars, that meaningful contrasts and comparisons can be drawn between the Roman Empire and modern empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, most notably…

People the world over tend to have highly inflated and self-delusory opinions of themselves and go to great length to defend and conserve that opinion. While this is true of the average person in the street, it is even truer of people who hold high office or have hereditary privileged positions, like royalty. Our contemplation today deals with such a person, King Belshazzar of Babylon, and his momentous fall from power when God weighed him in the balances and found him wanting. As we proceed it…