Roman Emperor

Augustus Caesar. Camilla is a Latin predecessor and symbol for the first emperor of Rome. The place a person comes from is very important when fully examining who a person is. It happens that Camilla is the queen of the Volscians (7.1105). Augustus Caesar was descended from the Volscians and in fact he spent his early years…

The traditions, both societally and politically, of the Roman empire were carried on more by the Byzantines empire than the rest of Medieval Europe. Of these two “Children of Rome” only the Byzantine Empire was the one to carry on its mantle. As such the Byzantine empire was more of a transformation of the Roman empire which it had proceeded it in a number of different ways. One of the key features that defined the Roman empire was a strong central government. Of the two “Children of Rome,”…

differences. The Romans and the Han had similar methods of political control in that they both shared imperial rule and a concept of gaining favor for a thriving kingdom/government, however, their methods of political control were different in that the Romans maintained a large, strong army while the Han had relatively inferior troops. Though referred to by different names and obtained in different manners, the Roman and the Han had a similar concept of receiving favor from their gods. In Roman…

Augustus came to power in 27BC ‘the first Roman Emperor became a model for his successors including his use of mythical imagery’ ( p.134 block 2). During the middle and late Republic ‘it was fashionable for Roman upper classes to link themselves genealogically with the Gods and Heroes themselves’ (P143 textual sources) Livy said ,It adds dignity to the past, and if any nation deserves the privilege of claiming a divine ancestory, that nation is our own )’ p.17 textual sources)…

it was also a fertile region that was able to sustain the agricultural needs of its sovereign rulers. First, it was the Roman Empire that controlled the local North African provinces and the goods they offered, and much later it was the rising Islamic civilization that took control of these goods. The expansion of Islam into North Africa is similar to the rise of earlier Roman rule; by examining the underlying causes such as the institutional structure of the Christian church before the…

collapse of the empires rely heavily on its polity. Among it, centralization is an essential instrument, which the government or emperor holds sufficient authority to control politics, military, religions and so forth. And a variety of rules built the direct centralized authority to concentrate the power, such as the Qin Dynasty and the Umayyad Empire. As for the Roman Empire, Augustus used a lot of indirect methods to satisfy people’s needs and his power at the same time. The main difference…

believe that the fall of Rome was due to the splitting of the empire and, this all happened under the rule of Emperor Diocletian. He believed that there was too much area to govern under one body, at this time the Roman Empire stretched from the British Isles and into Africa. The spit seemed hopeful for a while, but this didn't…

The Emperor Triumphant, Barberini Ivory) is thought to have been created in Constantinople (Byzantine) in the early 6th century. The artist is unknown. It is a diptych panel in five parts. The pieces’ dimensions are: 32.4 cm by 26.8 cm by 2.8 cm deep. The second piece, Augustus of Primaporta was discovered in1863 at the villa of Augustus’ wife Livia Drusilla, and close to a late Imperial gate called Prima Porta . The artist is unknown. It is a freestanding marble sculpture in Imperial Roman…

compressed, unlike the Romans, whereas theirs was a very slow build up to their height. The Chinese, in their ethnical identity aren’t a minority, mostly everybody they captured, assimilated to the Chinese culture. The Romans and Italians, however were a minority because throughout the whole Roman Empire there were so many different cultures, and ethnicities, that there was not one dominant race. When they did conquer different civilizations, they offered a form of assimilation into Roman or…

In 449 B.C.E., the laws of the Twelve Tables were the first written laws of ancient Rome. The laws were inscribed on 12 tablets, or tablets, that were fastened to the speaker's stand in the Roman Forum. The Roman Forum was the center of city ancient Rome where important government buildings held trials. The Laws of the Twelve Tables stayed on display throughout the time period that Rome was a republic and would be taken down when Rome became an empire. They dealt with a variety of issues,…