Western Roman Empire

cultures in Europe that the Celts “…were far more complex than at first it might appear” (13). The birth place of Celts came from Keltoi which has been created from the Greeks, except another term they are called as is barbarians, by none other than the Romans (19). These Keltoi’s, barbarians, Celts, or however you decide to call them, are being hired by the Greeks for their mercenary skills to help the Greeks win their wars. But sometimes the Celts would end up going against the Greeks for…

The book of Romans was written by the Apostle Paul while on his third missionary journey. Paul, at the time, had not been to Rome nor visited the believers there. This is why the theme of the whole book of Romans is the basic gospel, or Paul describing God’s plan, for all humankind, the way to accept salvation and righteousness. Because Paul had not yet visited Rome personally, he chose to write this epistle, also known as a letter, to the people preparing both himself and them for the reasons…

A Man of Wisdom An Analysis of “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus” The last of the Five Good Emperors, considered a stoic philosopher, a man of humility and dignification, Marcus Aurelius was an emperor of might and power, displaying characteristics many men strive for a lifetime to achieve. To give a brief understanding of the life of Marcus Aurelius, he was born in Rome in the year 121. He lost his father in infancy and was then relayed to be raised by his mother and paternal…

To show exactly how Hawthorne increased population he began by saying that Cicero’s population was of only 4,000 but with the purchase of 200+ acres in 1903 and the construction of buildings owned by Western Electric many job offers opened causing people to move in increasing the population to 40,000 people in such small amount of time. To support this, he showed the audience pictures of what the city looked like before and after the increase. To make…

Even though the Chinese and the Greek are very similar, they also have many differences. Some of the similarities are that they both have something to do with an egg. In the Chinese an egg shaped cloud existed before the earth. The egg shaped cloud contains a giant named pan Gu. Pan Gu the creators of the earth, created the world by stretching and broke the egg and release matter of the universe and when he died his body became the earth. In the Greek it was empty darkness and Nyx, “a bird with…

Maximus and Commodus are two brothers in Gladiator that have two very different personalities. Maximus is the one who has conquered every challenge and every obstacle in his life, and he is not offered the throne after former leader Marcus Aurelius dies. Commodus is given the throne, and takes absolute power. It is seen that he is more of the jealous and envious brother, because Maximus takes nothing for granted and works for everything. I watched Gladiator and I’ll admit that it is a great…

80 A.D. The Colosseum served as a host for sporting events for the roman population. The two rulers accredited for the Colosseum were the two roman emperors, Vespasian and Titus (Vespasian’s son). Vespasian’s vision for the Colosseum was to build the greatest arena ever, seen in the Roman world. But how has this arena’s design stayed similar for modern sport arenas for nearly 2000 years? The Colosseum applied the latest in Roman arts, engineering, architecture and other creative endeavors in…

One of the key components of any successful civilization throughout history is political control. It has proven itself absolutely necessary when it comes to maintaining order in any society. Political organization began to become much more elaborate during the Classical period, offering government leaders more control over the population. We see many different approaches to maintaining this control throughout the classical period civilizations. The Classical period Han and Mauryan dynasty…

With the rise of the practice of inhumation a market for the new sarcophagus was created. As with any object being created in today’s business world, price dictates luxury. With each types of sarcophagus, the price was dictated by the medium, the distance and mode of transport for the medium, and the workmanship involved to finish the sarcophagus. First the marble or stone were quarried, roughly cut into a rectangular shape, hollowed out, to save on weight, and shipped by land or sea. After…

To begin, the Khmer Empire is much more advanced and superior than the Polynesian Expansion as they were vastly superior in these three areas, buildings and architecture, form of government or ruling, and weaponry. This is as the Khmers had much more knowledge and vastly better skills than the Polynesians. The first area that the Khmers were stronger in was their use of skills and knowledge to build and create ideas for structures that could stay up for a very long time and were difficult to…