Holy Roman Empire

Christianity expanded throughout the western world at the end of the Roman empire appealing to slaves, the poor, and women. A man born around 4 B.C.E from Jerusalem, Israel, preached about the word of God gaining followers which threatened the Roman Empire. After his death Paul, an apostle, set the foundation of the Church which would influence the western world greatly throughout history. Another prophet named Muhammad also gained followers through his visions of God in the East. This lead…

Immoderate greatness, in other words extreme greatness could be used to classify Rome which is one of the most highly achieved and powerful empires of all time. The Empire set in time from 27 B.C.E to 476 C.E. circa, was fueled by Emperors that ruled the people, expanding their land, building roads and cities connecting them together, having strong army force, and dividing up their land into legions. The people of Rome began to make laws to abide by, educate the children growing up, and…

in 315 AD, there was a fight for imperial power over the Roman Empire. Diocletian had created a tetrarchy, but now the men fighting for the imperial office wanted to have sole power of the empire instead of having other men rule with him. Constantine the Great and Maxentius would turn out to be the main attackers for the position. Maxentius had power over Italy from defeating Galerius, and Constantine had control over the upper Roman Empire of Gaul and Britain. Unfortunately, Constantine was the…

sometimes forget the history behind the writings. Scripture falls nowhere short of a book of power throughout time. Many empires have dominated throughout history by creating a sense of order and rule within mankind. Power plays a major role in the influences man has amongst other men. The most powerful ruling of their time was the Persian Empire and, later to follow, the Roman Empire. Ironically, both dominating forces influenced the interpretation…

spread throughout the kingdom by his Apostles and a new religion called “Christianity” was embraced and expanded. Christians worship one God and believe in a trinity of their God. The concept of a monotheistic religion wasn’t accepted in the pagan Roman Empire. Christian beliefs were insulting to the pagan polytheistic culture. Christians did not have legal rights in the state unless they professed belief and made sacrifices to the pagan Gods. As a result, Christians were persecuted in a…

Roman Governance and the Church of Rome: An Analysis of the Positive and Negative Effects of the Centralization of Power in the Papacy in the Sixth to the Ninth Centuries This historical study will define the positive and negative effects on the rise of the papacy throughout the sixth to the ninth centuries. The fall of the Roman Empire left a massive administrative void that was filled with the administrators that served under the Church to replace this imperial form of governance from Rome.…

like peasant during the Roman Empire era. He was poor, had no distinction of royalty and lived in less desirable conditions. For historians there was nothing historically remarkable about his status. Therefore, his daily life was not written down. We only knew so little about him due to the fact that it was the stories the early Christians told about Jesus and what they have thought of him. II. Its so important that Jesus of Nazareth was born, lived and died in the Roman Empire because…

The Carolingian Empire and Ottonian Empire each occurred successively. Starting in the second half of the eighth century with the dynasty known today as Carolingian. Then culminating with the Ottonians as they were being established as the Holy Roman Empire. These empires were located in western Germany, France, and northern Italy. The Carolingian dynasty that was led by Charlemagne and his heirs used illustrated books to better develop Christianity’s exposure among their people which helped…

gods of the Roman Empire. After 312 CE, “large churches were build in every major city, many with imperial funding, signaled Christianity's growing strength” (textbook pg 272). The churches had spacious courtyard where the city’s poor were able to gather, and the bishops cared for the metropolitan poor. Christianity was able to become a widespread religion when it did due to a few factors of civilization during this time. One of the biggest factor of civilization was that the Roman empire was…

the Jewish population, has expanded into Romans, Muslims, and other culture groups. With Jesus’s words spread to the gentiles, the Romans decides to execute thousands of Christian because they see Christians as major threat of the fall of the Roman Empire, which results in the Great Persecution in 303. After Constantine takes over, as Romans accept Christianity, he releases Edict of Milan in 313, which legalizes Christianity and other religions. (Cohen “Roman Responses to the New Superstition”).…