Otho had sent his troops to late and his army suffered a horrible defeat. When he heard of this defeat ,he killed himself .Otho had reigned for barely 95 days.Aelius Vitellius was the next emperor. He abandoned himself to exaggeration and all but ignored the troops who had given him the throne. Also, upon hearing that the troops of his rival ,Vespasian, were approaching Rome Vitellius begged the senate to allow him to leave the throne and live as a private citizen so he could be
Constantine was not yet a baptized Christian when he settled matters of Christian dogma and the Arian Controversy at the First Nicene Council (First Council of Nicaea), which ended on August (or July) 25, 325. As a result of his initial decision against the Arians, Constantine exiled his friend Eusebius for holding an heretical position. Constantine later revised his opinion and recalled Eusebius. It was from 325 that Constantine enjoyed sole reign in the Roman empire, having defeated and executed his co-emperor Licinius, who had reneged on the Edict of Milan. Constantine died in 22 May, 337 at Nicomedia, shortly after his baptism by the Arian bishop, his friend Eusebius of
Study Guide: Test on Greece and Rome Wednesday, December 21, 2011 Multiple Choice Exam Keywords: - Homer, The Odyssey - polis an ancient Greek city-state - acropolis means "high city" in Greek, literally city on the extremity and is usually translated into English as Citad - phalanx A compact or close-knit body of people - Socrates, Plato, Aristotle are philosopher and they disagreed with demo. - “The Republic”- form of government in rome before the empire - Idealism (art)- realism - Pericles- a great leader of Athens that ruled/ directed during the Peloponnesian war, died by plague - Delian League- alliance between greek city-states to fight Persia, Athens leader - Peloponnesian war- war between athens and Sparta - Alexander
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin worked as an assistant to Charles Barry on the design of the New Palace of Westminster. Prior to the rebuilding of The Palace of Westminster, Britain had seen an unparalleled metamorphosis from a Roman Catholic Country to a Protestant. This affected many aspects of life in the following years including architecture. Pugin himself had already dissented from his Protestant upbringing and converted to Roman Catholicism in 1835. This internal dissent from tradition certainly affected Pugin’s view of what the true Christian style of architecture was.
The reoccurring appearance of epidemic diseases C. Occasional invasions from the Huns D. An ongoing conflict with the papacy 5. The quip that the Holy Roman Empire was, "neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire," is attributed to A. Voltaire B. Pope Gregory VII C. William of Normandy D. Hugh Capet 6. In 987, the French nobles chose which of the following men as their king? A. William of Normandy B. Frederick Barbarossa C. Hugh Capet D. Henry IV 18. The guilds of the High Middle Ages A.
Victoria Browning Browning1 Hum 110 501 Mr. Thomas Dieckmann Sept 26, 2013 Roman Rule to Renaissance In 410 AD, Rome established military outpost and trade networks that went from Northern England Germany and every shore of the Mediterranean along the way. the language they spoke was Latin and used currency to purchase items. Rome began to decay. The government fell into smaller kingdoms and tribal states that could not agree with each other. The community mainly consisted of farmers.
* Uniform currency in Rome * Many were polytheistic like the Greeks and often persecuted the Christians and Jews * Edict of Milan legalized Christianity and was proclaimed the official religion of Rome by emperor Theodosius. * Han * Learned from Qin and lasted much longer. * Lessened legalism * Wu Di built roads and canals and established an imperial university with Confucianism as the basis for the curriculum. * This was the basis for the civil service exams, which became the entry test for government jobs * Foreign policy of expansion was pursued and North Vietnam, Korea, and Central Asia came under its control. * Gupta (India) * Chandragupta Maurya came to power and established the Gupta Empire and conquered many kingdoms.
* Publius Hevlius Pertinax was the new caeser Maximus Maximus is a fictional character that is composed up of two or three real historical figures. Kind of like a collage of people to make one picture/person. Avidius Cassius * was a great roman general * was appointed military governor over Asia * got sent to Egypt to put down a rebellion * when Aurelius fell ill, his wife offered the throne to Avidius Cassius * but he proclaimed himself king before Aurelius had died * the senate then declared him a public enemy * Aurelius tried to save him by pardoning him but didn’t reach him in time * Avidius Cassius got killed by his own officers Diocletian * Born in the lower classes like Maximus * “He would have received little education beyond an elementary literacy” (www.roman-emperors.org) * “He eventually became his emperor's trusted favourite and bodyguard, and later became a general”( www.exovedate.com) * He was finally named heir, and became emperor a little while after
Marcus Antonius Gnipho, an orator and grammarian of Gaulish origin, was employed as Caesar's tutor. Caesar had two sisters, both called Julia. In 85 BC Caesar's father died suddenly while putting on his shoes one morning, without any apparent cause. At sixteen, Caesar was the head of the family. The following year he was nominated to be the new Flamen Dialis, high priest of Jupiter, as Merula, the previous incumbent, had died in Marius's purges.
The beginning of the 1920s was a marked point of renovation for France: there was a radical shift in political power (Republican and parties of the Right gaining more seats in the Senate, and the Socialists losing most of their seats); France had regained the territories of Alsace-Lorraine restoring it as one of the strongholds of the European continent; in essence, the French people were attempting to rid themselves of all the pre-war values. From the beginning of World War One until 1920, Stravinsky had been living in self-imposed exile in Switzerland, but in June he uprooted his entire family to France, initially settling in Brittany for several months. The move to France could be symbolically recognised as his coming out of exile – it is a personal milestone for Stravinsky and his family. Stravinsky’s personal life and musical works are often split into different periods – but many