Praetorian Guard

The Roman Empire was one of the largest empires in its time period. It had acquired wealth and power on three continents and constantly growing its reaches to the next. It was one of the first with a much advanced government, military, and economic capabilities in which the empire flourished with its combined Greek and Latin culture. But as its constant growth and expansion was its advantage it also became one its major disadvantage, a small city to vast empire which ruled over the Mediterranean…

produces the eggs. Then there are the drones who are like worker bees. What they do is keep the hive in good condition. Warriors are are the protecters and soldiers of the hive who are more deadly than the drones. Finally there is the praetorian or the royal guard. Their job is to protect points of interest or the queen herself.(alien…

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a six volume set written by Edward Gibbon. The six volumes were written from a Roman point of view between the years 1776 and 1788. Edward Gibbon was an English historian writer and a Member of Parliament. Gibbon’s work is considered to be outdated due to the central idea of this popular work. Throughout the set of books, he uses irony and criticism of organized religion. The thesis of his work is the falling of Rome was caused by embracing…

There is a saying that if you do one good thing and one bad, people will always remember you for the bad. A possible cause for this being that humans would rather see the bad in others versus the bad in themselves. This is especially true for many world leaders who often have the possibility of “messing things up” on a much bigger scale. A good example of this is Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors of Rome. Nero’s legend was truly a product of his mother. Telling Nero’s story would be…

competition for the honor that Paul was receiving. Maybe it was the honor he received by members of the Philippian church. It could perhaps be the honor and success he had in preaching the gospel that had even reached “throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else.” (Phi 1:13) The success of Paul and the honor Paul has are triggers of envy. Honor and success do not trigger envy in everyone. There are a few elements that exist that would provoke envy. Envy is triggered when a…

An argument could be made that the ‘Holy’ Roman Empire shaped the way the world is now, but the Fall of Rome was inevitable for three reasons which can be seen in the demise of most great empires. Firstly, the Romans expanded their empire too far from their capital, secondly the creation of enemies due to Rome’s lack of leadership resulted in the land being overrun by foreign nations, and lastly, due to the weakening of the Roman legions, corruption and political instability played a role in the…

of the frequent change of leadership. There was frequently civil war and assassinations of emperors. Under 75 years, the Western Roman Empire had 20 emperors. Government corruption made the problem bigger because the Praetorian Guard, which are supposed to be the Emperors body guards, helped assassinating the emperors and once even auctioned off the role to the person with the highest bid.This was a problem because the trust of the people for their leadership worsened and worsened because of…

The Great Fire of Rome was a devastating urban blaze that began on the 19th of July in 64AD, consuming over half the city and was not contained until six days later. The controversy surrounding this infamous event stems from historical claims that the fire was initiated at the command of Emperor Nero, who “fiddled” while his great city burned. Some contradictory sources such as Tacitus, however, have reasoned that Nero did not torch Rome, a judgement which is shared by several significant modern…

by his troops but they also helped him to seize control of Rome after Didius Julianus was sentenced to death by the senate. Severus and his men after acquiring power killed all those who struck down pertinax and placed his own loyal men in the Praetorian Guard so to not meet the same fate as Pertinax. His Reign as emperor was not respected all over as He would have to go to war with Pescennius Niger who had proclaimed himself emperor of Rome in Syria. Along with that there was Clodius Albinus,…

Identification and the evaluation of Sources: My research project is to analyze the involvement of barbarians in the fall of the roman empire. I found many sources for my research project the source I am going to begin talking about is a website. The website I’m discussing is “Barbarian Invasions of the Roman empire” (Penfield.edu). The article was created by John Giotto a social studies teacher in Bay Trail Middle School located in Penfield New York. John Giotto's 30 teacher ratings…