Roman Empire

Titus Livius and The Early History of Rome Roman history is subjective to those who study it and write about the rise and the fall of the Roman Empire. One ancient historian named Titus Livius, who was born in either 59 B.C. or 64 B.C. , had written a series of books titled History of Rome. Not much is known about Titus Livius in his younger years except that he had lived in the city of Padua, which had suffered greatly in Rome’s Civil War. His books are split into several different…

Virgil included the Roman people in his epic with the intent of glorifying Roman citizens, Roman culture, and Roman leaders, to help keep Rome stable. The Aeneid very clearly paints the Romans out to be some magnificent group of people destined to rule everything graced by the sun’s warm glow. They have fate on their side and with the help of mighty Jupiter, they are destined for greatness (1.264-313). However, if Virgil told a tale of an all-powerful Roman people gifted the entirety of the…

while many civilizations were patriarchal, the advent of new religions sometimes allowed women to be treated equally of that society couldn’t perform those tasks. Much like today, gender roles in China, India and the Roman Empire are very different. In China, India and the Roman Empire, most women were in charge of raising children…

Franks, as he is known for establishing the Carolingian Empire through a series of conquests. He also believed in a knowledgeable revitalization, even though he was illiterate. 2. The term used by historians for the middle age of Europe was called medieval. This term indicated the time period in the middle of Greco-Roman and the Renaissance. 3. The eastern part of the Roman Empire which fell to the Ottomans in 1453 was known as the Byzantine Empire. This name was taken from “Byzantium”, which…

Introduction This essay will examine the different ways in which Roman culture is detectable archaeological throughout the landscapes of both Campania and Etruria. Through the different archaeological, techniques epigraphy, ground surveys, Roman architecture and excavation we will discover that Roman empire was busying itself and expanding it influence. For this discussion, one will look at Pompeii in Campania, Cosa in South Etruria and Volaterrae in North Etruria and will find that there is a…

King, as a result the Pagans believed that the disasters that has occurred in Rome, was because of the Christians religion. They believed the Christian faith had weakened the Roman Empire, as before the Christians had arrived the Pagan Gods, had made the Roman Empire successful. Furthermore, it would never had fallen if the Romans had stayed true to their Pagan Gods. Augustine response to these accusation, to try quell both the pagans and Christians, who believe that if the one true God existed…

Stark to the answer that women in the Roman empire played a massive role in popularizing Christianity in western society. In Stark’s most famous work Reconstructing the Rise of Christianity: The Role of Women, it argues that the unbalanced gender ratios in both pagan and Christian societies and the charitable nature early Christianity offered to women would create the ideal scenario as to why Christianity rose so quickly in the Roman empire. In the Roman empire infanticide was practiced heavily…

The Roman Provinces’ Relationship to the Roman Economy Background N.S. Gill writes that Rome’s provincial system came into play, following their expansion beyond, as she puts it, “the Italian boot” (para. 1), and referring first to the islands of Sicily in 241 BCE, followed by Sardinia and Corsica in 238 BCE. At the end of the second Punic war (205 BCE), Rome’s next major portfolio “acquisition” was Spain. In all, Gill lists thirty-two Roman colonies. I was curious why she listed a date range…

century A.D. to the fourth century A.D., the ideas, development and practice of Christianity changed tremendously from a small Jewish sect during the first century who was among one of the most persecuted groups in the Roman Empire to becoming the state religion of all of the Roman empire during the fourth century. Even though Jerusalem was the birthplace of the religion of Christianity, it was not such a success in this region, in actuality the success of the religion came from outside of…

While the Western Roman Empire crumbled and fell, the Byzantine Empire thrived and prospered. This was mainly due to the fact that Constantinople (which I will be using as an example), a major city that was part of the Byzantine Empire, had better protection from invasions, prosperous commerce, and a stronger military. First off, the Byzantine Empire had better protection from foreign invaders. For example, Constantinople’s location gave it the ability to easily be easily defended.…