Sub-Roman Britain

justifications that these leaders used to encourage their people to fight with them. Having a reason to fight is important when leading one’s countrymen into war. When it comes to going to war with the invading Roman military, Boudicea justifies the act to her people in a short speech. Tacitus, an ancient Roman historian, wrote about this period in time. He retells these reasons, “But now,” she said, “it is not as a woman descended form noble ancestry, but as one of the people that I am…

known as sub-emperor, and would later become the Western Roman Emperor. During this time Constantine would be raised by Diocletian. During 305 A.D. Diocletian and Maximian were emperors of that the time and when they resigned, Constantius and Galerius became the new emperors. After the death of his father, Constantine would fight to take over control of the empire. While in Britain, Constantius sent out for his son to join him. They fought alongside each other and crossed through Britain…

italic group and peoples of the Indian sub-continent. This civilization originated from central Europe at the beginning of the first millennium B.C. and their main occupation was horse rearing and the use of iron was at large because of its availability in abundance. They started spreading across rapidly and by the end of the 1st millennium B.C. their cultural group had already spread up and down the Danube and Rhine, also covering Gaul, Ireland and Britain, across central Europe into northern…

remote provinces, but it was not nearly as sophisticated or large as the roman roads. The Greeks preferred travel by sea to travel over land, at every opportunity instead of going over land they would sail on the Mediterranean. Also, as Mark Cartwright explains, travel was extremely expensive. One would have to hire a carriage or horse if one did not own one themselves, because the roads were not as easy for traveling as roman roads (Cartwright). The first proper road was constructed in 312 BC…

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…

spread vastly across countries included in the ancient empire, located “as far north as Hadrian’s Wall in Britain and as far east as Dura Europos on the river Euphrates; there are many on the Northern edge of the Roman Empire in Germany, and many in the center, in Rome and Ostia.” Within these countries, the Mithraea tend to be situated along the military frontiers, in port cities, or along the Roman road system and trade routes, essentially in places where various types of travelers would be…

Independence was waged in the American determination of gaining freedom from its overpowering mother country. Several factors contributed to the outbreak of the Revolutionary War. Most prominently, the major contribution to the war originated from Great Britain spending a surplus of money and resources on the French and Indian War. Resultantly, taxes were enforced upon the people of the colonies in an array of different forms. This understandably developed fury and resentment among the…

Mali found greater success than Ghana because of a new factor brought about by centuries of trade with Northern Africa, this being the spread of Islam. Muslim influence began during the time of Ghana through trade and commerce. Arabs from the north would trade things such as salt, horses and camels for gold and timber. It wasn’t until Mali was formed that Islam was allowed to integrate into West African society. Islam gave a sense of unity to the entire region, making all of West Africa more…

CREATING THE AFRICAN MYTH Often times, when very little is known about a topic, we as humans tend to fill in the blanks with the signs to which we have been exposed. Eventually, these signs and their meanings begin to stick in our minds and the minds of a society as unquestionably accurate, thus a myth is created. This is the case with G.W.F. Hegel’s The Philosophy of History. Hegel addresses the significance of Africa and Africans in comparison to the rest of the world by analyzing physical…

Despite The Economist labeling Africa as “the hopeless continent” (McLure, 2012) as late as the year 2000, the sub-Saharan region of Africa continue to prove these words wrong, growing economically as a leading exporter of oil and natural gas. Technological advances, democratic governments, new economic policies and the support by the global community poise Africa to become a leading economy within the next decade (McLure, 2012). This economic growth poses some great problems, as to avoiding the…