Holy Roman Emperor

Today I am going to talk about how Christianity destroyed Rome. God gave Christianity power for helping Constantine believe only in him. Christianity enforced their will on Emperor Theodosius. Finally, Augustine showed the Romans that they were spared by the barbarians through the respect of Christ. In Rome their were a group of men that were called Christians and had a great power. “They offered a spiritual comfort and the prospect of salvation on the one hand, and even riches as a worldly…

Christians were being tortured and killed because they did not worship the Roman gods even in an agreement in which they didn’t have to believe in them. Although in the beginning the roman government didn’t totally dislike the Christians they allowed almost any, but needed to have…

were, Social reforms, Military, Executive, Political, Religious, and Toll. Diocletian’s reforms were expensive and required a predictable income. His reforms results were less than easy to anticipate. He made the Social Reforms in order to give the emperors respect and overcome again. The military reforms to liberate from field armies. He separated the civil leaders from the military leaders. What Diocletian tried to accomplish was that he supported the borders and fixed prices for wages and…

in its start for several reasons including that it was a threat to the Pax Romana, and it was an easy target to use as a scapegoat. For example, The Life of Tiberius Caesar, written in 100 CE by Suetonius states the persecution of Christians by an emperor “He abolished foreign cults [from Rome], especially the Egyptian and the Jewish rites, compelling all who were addicted to such superstitions to burn their religious vestments and all their paraphernalia.” Caesar was banishing these religions,…

proposal I talked about the Romans, who were the majority and the Christians in Rome who were the minority. I began to explain that the emperors of Rome persecuted the Christians because they disliked what they believe in and that they didn’t follow the emperors rules. The persecutions were the main problems of Christianity. I also discussed the multiple ways of persecutions that they went through and why the Christians accepted it. I spoke about the evolution of emperors and what they each did…

The Roman Emperor that I have chosen for this essay is Constantine. Constantine ruled the Roman Empire from 306 – 337 A.D. He was the most important emperor of the Late Antiquity. His powerful personality had laid down the foundations of the post-classical European civilization. Constantine’s reign was not only eventful, but it was also highly dramatic. While Constantine’s father succeeded Augustus’ rank, Constantine had served under the distinction under both Diocletian and Galerius. He was…

the last of the “Five Good Emperors”. Marcus Aurelius was born on April 26, 121 AD, in Rome, Italy. He was known for his philosophical interests and was one of the most respected emperors. He was born into a wealthy and influential family. He learned Latin and Greek. He was most interested in Stoicism, Greek philosophy focused on fate, reason, and self-restraint. In 138 he was adopted by Aurelius Antonius. Antonius was selected by Emperor Hadrian to be the next emperor after his death. Marcus…

The Persecution Under Marcus Aurelius Marcus Aurelius was a Roman Emperor reign from 160 to 181 AD. In the Roman history, Marcus was called one of the five good emperors because how good the country grow, under his control, the Roman became stronger and stronger, it’s one of the most strongest time of Rome. Marcus Aurelius believe in Stoicism and he is a strong-willed man. Because of this, the persecution under Marcus Aurelius is fierce. The cruelties used in this persecution was horrible at…

Constantine’s victory at the Milvian Bridge over the fellow but rival ruler of the Western Roman empire, Maxentius and his army, became a great triumph for the consolidation and growth of Constantine’s power and with it the development of Christianity. David Potter, author of Constantine the Emperor, argues that Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus, or more commonly known as Constantine, “is best known as the emperor of Rome who converted to Christianity and in doing so made it…

The assassination of Caesar on Ides of March of 44 BC, marked the beginning of sweeping changes that will push Roman state into the civil war out of which Octavian will emerge as the sole ruler of Rome, dissolving in that manner half a millennia long period of Republic. The next five centuries Rome will flourish, struggle, change and eventually, under the heavy pressure from incursions of Germanic and other peoples that came in waves from the steppes of today's Russia and Asia, collapse leaving…