How did the Successor Kings attempt to legitimise their monarchies in the century following the death of Alexander the Great? After the unexpected and youthful death of King Alexander the Great in 323BC, the successor Kings that followed his reign only disjointed the once vast and resilient empire. The immediate successors after Alexander were called the Diadochi, and they were the first generation of military and political leaders after the death of the Macedonian king and conqueror, Alexander the Great in 323 (Botdford and Robinson). The six successors that are mentioned in this essay all took on the monarchy with different ideas, strategies, boundaries and goals. Legitimising their monarchies seemed extremely difficult after Alexander’s death, and after the standard he had set for the successors that followed his legacy.
The first of Alexander’s motivations is that of his “inheritance”. We know from Arrian (1971, p.42), that Phillip had already set out his campaign against Persia and that he was not just after land, but was after retribution. His campaign slogan of “freeing the Greeks” and “punishing the Persians” (Lane Fox, 1974) highlights not only his desire to appear the hero, but to also seek revenge for what had previously been done to his people at the hands of Xerxes. As Tarn (1948) writes, Alexander believed that the campaign and the conquering of Persia was his inheritance. Just as his father had begun the campaign, Alexander would see to it that it was completed.
His decision for expressing these words is mainly based on historical facts. King Archidamus claims that if their unprepared population decides to ignore these facts, it will bring a greater harm to their population. In contrast, their foe, the Athenians have access to a variety of essential resources such as, a strong navy and their numerous tax-paying allies allows them to achieve a higher chance of victory at war. (1.80). Therefrom, due to these important facts, the wise king Archidamus strongly encourages their population to postpone their attack and to prepare their army instead.
However, other factors must be considered including Mao’s attempts of starting a permanent revolution, testing the younger members of the party and undermining bureaucrats and intellectuals. One of the reasons that Mao launched the Cultural Revolution was to regain his dominant position in the party and undermine the position of Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi. Mao believed that his colleagues were ready to remove him from power when the opportunity came, and that they were using their position to mount a challenge. This influenced Maos decision to launch the Cultural Revolution, as he feared he was losing his grip on the party. Liu and Deng began to reverse the collectivisation programme which Mao believed to be evidence that a power struggle was looming.
How far can Oliver Cromwell’s death be seen as the key in bringing about the Restoration? Oliver Cromwell was the dominant figure of the Interregnum. His death then was one of the key events in bringing about the restoration of the monarchy. The question must be whether his death made restoration inevitable, or whether it created the situation which made feasible, if not guaranteed. His death posed the question of who was to succeed him, and while Charles II ultimately returned, alternative leaders attempted to govern first.
Assess the contribution of speeches in Thucydides’ work. Thucydides’ introduces his work by presenting it as a “history of the war fought against each other by the Peloponnesians and the Athenians”. However his work was not a simple narrative of the events that unfolded, Thucydides wanted his work to be judged as useful because he believed that history repeats itself. He wrote his work largely to explain the fall of the Athenian empire. Thucydides’ work, however, was not simply a book written about Athens as the protagonist which was defeated by its foolish over-ambition, he wrote about the Athenians and Spartans with similar objectivity, acknowledging both their weaknesses and virtues.
• Even though he was an Emperor, he actually started the demise of kingdoms and royalty. • Napoleon’s legacy is quite complex because he was the embodiment of the Enlightenment on one hand, and on the other, he inspired fear. • He contributed to the resurgence of conservatism, the growth of nationalism, and the rise of a new phenomenon, romanticism. This deadly trio led to two world wars. • It is true that he implemented some revolutionary institutions, but one should not overlook the fact that he also had every one of them only to satisfy his own desire.
Pompey was seeking to gain the consulship on the platform of full restoration of tribunal power. This warranted him the automatic control and support of the tribunes. A specific example is that of Lollius Palicanus who agreed to assist Marcus Cicero with the trial of Gaius Verres only if he agreed to vote for Pompey in the upcoming election. Pompey discovered that having the support of the tribunes, and thus the common people,
The Ottoman Empire was weakened during this period. In 1908 Turkish officers called the Young Turks committed a coup d'etat and took power. This meant that the Ottoman Empire could recover and might get great influence in the Balkans. Austria-Hungary wanted to annex Bosnia as soon as possible so that area wasn’t lost. Annexation could cause problems with Russia and its allies.
By examining the various primary sources, lecture notes, and textbook, I conclude that the Roman world was transformed by the way people understood the relationship between religion and the state during this period because each leader believed in a different way to bring success and dominance over Western Europe causing Christianity to evolve in the Roman Empire. From 284 to 305 CE, Diocletian ruled as emperor of the Eastern Empire. Diocletian “appointed three men to share his rule” creating a tetrarchy government to provide more effectual governance over the empire by balancing authority and territory. He convened for Lactantius, master of Latin rhetoric, to teach rhetoric at the imperial government and to manage the “Latinity of the imperial court’s official documents;” thus making Lactantius an important eyewitness to Diocletian’s reign. According to Lactantius’s On the Deaths of the Persecutors, in February 303 CE, Diocletian launched the last persecution of Christians which denied Christians of all legal rights.