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Strict collectors would take away their land if they failed to pay up and there was nothing they could do to stop this. Then came the Gracchi brothers, who were part of the “legal system” of Rome. Their mission was to try and help to aid their people. Tiberius Gracchi wanted land reform to redistribute state land illegally owned by the rich to the poor while Gaius Gracchi wanted to give power to the Equestrian Class by giving them tax collection and jury rights. Tragically, the Gracchi brothers…

John the Baptist was the son of Zechariah, the priest, and his wife, Elizabeth. To begin with, Zechariah and Elizabeth were both rather old to even consider the possibility of conceiving a child. With this in mind, Zechariah could not believe what the angel Gabriel told him while he was doing priestly services in the Holy Place at Jerusalem. The angel said, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah; your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to call him John.”…

The Romans have been known to be one of the greatest ruling powers in known history. This success can be attributed to many things; such as their unique culture. Roman culture has long been studied and revered for its attributes and survival. Excavation upon excavation has been launched in order to find out more about the Roman people and their culture, but what really speaks volumes about them is the ancient texts and the texts written today. There are three key subjects that contribute the…

Concepts of Christianity Early Christianity is an important part of History, it allows us to get an inside look at ways they determined what was right within their religion, heresy they had to review and dispute, and their overall concern with the doctrine, which together, made up Christianity at that time. Religion today is much more refined, Christians participate in church, reading scripture in their spare time, as well as teaching to non-believers. It is easy to be a Christian in todays…

Cicero argues that the instituttions of the Roman state had been effectively torn asunder by the new party which under the Gracchi and later under other populist leaders aimed to divide Rome in two parts. Cicero claimed that after the death of Tiberius Gracchus there were “two senates in one republic and two separate people. This was clearly a departure from how things had always been done in Rome which had for the longest time a tradition of being a republic which valued working together in…

Roman Empire did not fall in a day. It took a great deal of years for this empire to become feeble and fall. During this fall, there grew two distinct worlds, the West and the East. They were very surprising from each other. The attacking armed force came to the edges of Rome, which had been left absolutely undefended. In 410 A.C., the Visigoths, broke the dividers of Rome and breached the walls. As a result they sacked the capital of the Roman Empire. The Visigoths plundered, looted, burned,…

the empire as one of the greatest cultural and political powers in history. Near the end of his years he quoted “I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble” (Suetonius “The 12 Caesars"). He died at the age of 75in 14 AD, and his son Tiberius, was crowned the new king. Years later during the imperial crisis which occurred around 270 AD, Rome had split into 3 empires, The Gallics, the Palmyrenes, and the Romans. This was due to civil wars caused by military leaders who wanted to…

Rome was a much more culturally tolerant empire than the Qin Dynasty, which was very culturally strict. In an edict of Augustus, written in 1 BCE, on the rights of the jewish people, he stated, “by the will of the people of the Romans, that the Jews shall use their own customs in accordance with their ancestral law, just as they used to use them in the time of Hyrcanus, the high priest of their highest god; and that their sacred offerings shall be inviolable and shall be sent to Jerusalem and…

Roman Empire is the largest empire in the World. It consist a group of countries or states that controlled by one ruler or government. The example of the countries are Portugal, Spain, Italy, England, France, Turkey, Germany, Belgium, Egypt, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Israel and others. The golden age of Roman Empire was reflected in the growth of tourism. There are some factors that encouraged the growth of tourism under Roman Empire. The first factor is economic factor. Economic factor is…

Spartacus was a person in the first century B.C., this means, that he lived in the era of the romans. But the real question is, why did he become famous? Spartacus was a slave leader of the third servile war. The question why the other two servile wars are less famous, will be explained later. Spartacus became famous when he started the third servile war, before the third servile war, we don’t know much about him. Most people say, Spartacus served the romans for some fights and killed a roman…