Western Roman Empire

Group Members: Amirali Aghnami Zhobin Sadeghi Kevin Rush Wei Qiu Sarah Smurthwaite Art History 1 Professor Meyer 24 October 2014 Peace and Security Art and architecture throughout history has kept alive and allowed expansion of ideas, reality, and emotion. It not only sustained and expanded cultures, but is allowed people to have the freedom to express and honor heroes, religious figures, and the values that societies embraced which were courage, dignity, peace, and security. In art…

Greek, Roman, and Hebrew Cultures’ in The City of God In the ancient world Rome was known as the Eternal City because the Romans thought it would last forever. However, the empire of Rome fell in 410. The pagans were quick to blame the new found religion of Christianity for the city’s demise. This led to the Bishop of Hippo, St. Augustine, to develop the concept of a distinction from a materialistic Earthly City and Heavenly City. St. Augustine theorized this concept in his book The City of God.…

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…

Roman Architecture Were Romans really the greatest architects in history? For them to accomplish being considered the best, they borrowed ideas from their Etruscan neighbors and their forefathers who had helped supply them with a wealth of knowledge that they mastered and improved upon to become the essential basis for future architectural design and solutions. The Romans made very major improvements to previous era’s ideas of architecture. This created the daring and unique styles that they…

teachings. In A.D. 410, a moment in The Western history, the Vandals, we're under orders of their king; Alaric captured Rome. Rome was known to be called the Eternal City; therefore, the Romans thought it would literally never fall, and the year 410 shook there beliefs to its foundations and ultimately led to the collapse of the Roman Empire. The world seemed to be destroyed and everyone try to come up with answers; about what to do and what to believe in. Those Romans who adhered to the waning…

how much Rome is shaped the world; especially Western culture and thought. “How much has Rome affected the modern world?” you may ask. Thankfully that’s what this paper is all about. I, Jacob Kroeger, will briefly argue how Rome (and Greece) has impacted Politics, Language, modern day religion. Politics and Government. The Government, laws, and political philosophies that is found in the United States derive and find its origins in the Greco-Roman world. The first, major democracy in the…

values, had great impact on the people of the time periods, influenced society, political and even economic aspects of life in Western Europe. Although much of the Golden Age was undocumented, texts such as Plato’s Euthyphro, and knowledge of polytheism can help determine the implications rationalism had on much of Greek society. Alternately, we have texts available from the Roman…

Roman warriors had to be strong since they were constantly at war, Gladiators had to be strong to stay alive and normal citizens had to be strong to perform their jobs. Strength was so important that the emperors were typically weight trained and led by example. The Roman historian Suetonius stated that Emperor Tiberius (14 AD to 37 AD) could punch a hole through an apple and inflict…

The nature of authority went through a gradual transformation from the beginnings of Western civilization to the early modern period. These changes occurred through many centuries of European history in how authority was exercised, its centralization, and the way that people would not tolerate tyrannical authority, and these are manifested through several specific instances. History is often said to repeat itself, and as members of society it’s important to reflect on the plasticity of authority…

behind them as the rider cracked his whip. Swords swiped, shields clashed, men fought for their lives. A man could die based on the attitude of one man.With the flip of the emperor's thumb, a man could die. These were the famous events that all the Romans came to enjoy in the Colosseum. Commissioned by the Emperor Vespasian and completed by his son Titus in 80 A.D. The Colosseum hosted gladiatorial contests, mock sea battles, animal hunts, executions and other popular forms of entertainment…