Western Roman Empire

200 years of Roman peace and prosperity. During this time, the Empire successfully conquered much territory, and new ideas emerged. The fall of the Roman Empire was caused by three major faults. First, the Roman Empire had several societal problems with religion and values/traditions. Next, the economy completely collapsed because of lack of money and high rates of unemployment. Finally, the Empire suffered from several issues with the military and invasions. Part of why the Roman Empire fell…

When Germanic tribes arrived to the borders of the Roman Empire in the 4th century A.D, many of them were incorporated into the Roman society. Many of them served as “feoderati”, army men, who will be given a piece of land in order to work or served in the military. Germanic people were proud of their root. Moreover, they showed that by clothes they wore. They wore German customs and kept their Germans tradition. They worship many gods such as Thor, the God of thunder and Freya, the God of…

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…

The Roman Empire was the largest and most powerful political state in the western civilization. However, Rome has not always been an Empire. It developed from only a small town and expanded after time to one of the most influential Empire around the Mediterranean sea. Inspired by the drive to expand and by the nature of absorbing other cultures into their own, they created an innovative spirit, which transformed the rural Europe into urban areas. These achievements could not have been achieved…

Discuss how much of Roman society and thought were Greek in origin. The Archaic Roman Empire was molded by a great deal of foreign ideals; however, Roman religion, art, architecture, literature, and philosophy were inspired most by Greek influence. This discussion forum response will delve into the different aspects of influence that Greece had on Roman society. Influence of the Greek society was brought into Rome following the fall of the Greek Empire, when a multitude of well educated Greeks…

The trouble of having such a large Empire because of overexpansion was not just limited to the army however. Communication was a huge problem in regard to the central action Emperors tried to command. A colossal imagination is required to understand the hardship of collecting accurate and precise information in the Roman world. Even ruling just half of it, you were still trying to control an area larger than the modern day European Union minus the luxuries of mobile phones, planes and superfast…

The Roman empire was certainly not a failure because the empire has done great things that have made a huge positive impact on the world. The Roman Empire has done great things in Religion especially with Christianity because they were on of the first followers of Christianity and they made improvements and changes to the religion that are still followed today by millions of people. The Roman Empire was also not a failure because of all the great things that they had done like improve…

all the way up to the 1600’s, I would argue that it was in introduction of the Christian religion to the western civilizations. Every aspect of civilization was impacted by this socially, economically and politically. Christianity was first introduced by Constantine in the Roman Empire in the late third century. Constantine issued the famous Edict of Milan, which made it official that the Romans would tolerate Christianity. By the beginning of fourth century it had become the state religion.…

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…

(pluralism.org). Secularism was an important part of this because when the idea came out, it caused many Christians to view religion differently. “During the eighteenth century, under the impact of The Enlightenment, there were many writings of the Western philosophers, which argued that religious teachings were the major obstacle to the growth and progress of man” (p 159-159). This idea of secularism during The Enlightenment challenged the way that Christians had previously thought and it led…