Kangxi Emperor

Empire’s borders. In 410, the Visigoth King Alaric took all the wealth from Rome. The Empire spent the next decades under constant threat. It was raided again in 455 and in 476, the Germanic leader Odoacer staged a revolt and deposed the emperor. No Roman emperor would ever rule from a post in Italy. Overexpansion and Military Overspending With…

Despite the efforts of the Roman officials to balance out power, the Roman Republic fell due to continuous revolts. Citizens did not agree with the government placement of authority because they felt that the Patricians had more say than the Plebeians. Corrupt Roman officials were a big contribution as to why this was occurring. People such as Crassus and Caesar were causing the decline of the great Roman Republic. Citizens and public officials disagreed where the power in the government should…

Politics were one of the reasons responsible for the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Rome was run by many greedy and cruel emperors that had adopted the throne through assassination or through inheritance (father to son). Lacking a system to replace the emperor, Rome was faced with new emperors unfit to rule. In addition, Praetorian Guards would assassinate emperors…

gods and goddesses, many having been adopted from the Greeks. They believed that if they offered sacrifices to their gods, that they would be repaid with service. In 312 AD, the Emperor Constantine had a vision that stated that if he followed the sign that he saw and had faith in God, he would be victorious over Emperor Maxentius. Constantine followed the vision and gained control of the Western Roman Empire. Christianity was eventually legalized and made into the official religion of Rome.…

Legal Measures/Imperial patronage to Christianity: As stated before, during Constantine's time as Emperor the benefits of imperial patronage to the christian community, and church were enormous. Most important is that Constantine gave signal to a kind of change in regime that would end up reaching down, and bringing up the Christian church as a force not to be trifled with in the imperial society as well as with the largely pagan Roman state. Then it becomes a question as to what kind of…

and is where he built Constantinople and saw the wealthy rise of economy with it as the western empire was slowly falling apart. With the death of them two, civil wars began to break out between the legions as each one wanting its commander to be emperor. The civil wars were not only weakening the military,…

Royalty, it is a creation of sovereignty which is perceived as an influential terror. Sovereignty is what Britain had created to destroy their chaos, the ruler is chosen by blood. Alexandrina Victoria was one of those blood royals and has proven that bloodline power has no specific control. The British monarchy must be preserved along with the antique way of living. Standing alone on her own, she brought an exclusive way of leadership to the table when she began as queen. She gave persuasive…

the late Roman emperor Constantine, exercises offered by Peter Jenny’s The Artist’s Eye uses art as an exploratory aide to decipher a more profound meaning to the text than what meets the untrained eye. When comparing Jenny’s exercise of Constellations in Chapter 7 to Eusebius’ biography there must be a connection between the two texts, an understanding of the biography in its intended form, and an analysis…

Geaogerphy The geography of rome is characterized by the seven hills and tiber river. In war it was easier for them because of the hills and the river. There are many good reasons why the city of Rome grew where they did. The city was built along seven hills which protected it from attack. Second, the Tiber River made a fine highway for travel to the Mediterranean Sea for trade. The making of civilization is affected by geography. Rome did not spring into being as a power on the Italian…

Emperor Hadrian constructed a villa at Tivoli as a retreat from Rome. His dislike of the Palatine Hill in Rome lead to the building of the retreat. The area chosen for residence is said to have been occupied in the Republican age by a smaller villa owned by the family of Hadrian’s wife. The luxurious architectural complex consisted of over 30 buildings, lakes, and gardens that spread over half a square mile. They had notable similarity to classical Greek architecture and Egyptian architecture.…