He also divulged information about the French resistance leaders to the Axis, resulting in the death of at least 150 people. He was shot dead after capture by French police in 1946. 3、The tyrannical rule of Roman emperor Julius Caesar came to a very sticky end when his own nephew, Marcus Junius Brutus, took part in the murder
Agesilaus objected to Leotychidas' reign, saying that he was a mere bastard; the prince replied by saying that there was an oracle that warned against a 'lame king.' The debate was concluded when Lysander, Sparta's best commander and a personal friend of Agesilaus, declared that the (lysander, 400b.c). So, in 400, Agesilaus was accepted as king by the Spartans. Lysander was the proponent of a militant and aggressive foreign policy, and from now on Agesilaus had to follow this policy too. In the year of his accession, he sent general Thibron to what is now Turkey in order to protect the Greek towns against oppression by the Persian satrap Tissaphernes.
The Hellenistic Period When the Hellenistic Period emerges in 323BC, Alexander the Great is the reigning conqueror. His father, Philip of Macedon, had united the Grecian states and was driving back the Persian forces out of Asia Minor. As the pressure mounts, he is assassinated during a festival. Alexander succeeded his father’s leadership and
“How Constantine rose to Power” When his father was made Caesar, Constantine was left at the court of the emperor Diocletian, where he was under the watchful eye of Galerius, who was Caesar with Constantius. When Diocletian and Maximian resigned in 305, Constantius and Galerius became emperors. Constantius requested that Constantine be sent to him in Britain, and Galerius reluctantly complied. Constantius died at York the next year. There, his soldiers proclaimed Constantine emperor, but much rivalry for the vacated office ensued.
Introduction: • Gaius Octavius was born in 63BCE and was the great nephew of Julius Caesar. Caesar took Octavius under his wing, having him elected to the College of Pontiffs and enrolling him in to the Patrician Aristocracy. When Octavius learned Caesar had been assassinated he also found out that Caesar has adopted him and named him his heir. Octavius took on Caesar’s name and became Gaius Julius Caesar Octavius but was known simply as Octavian. • The situation in Rome toward the end of the Republican period was that the country’s senate had lost majority of its power.
His great ancestor, Lucius Junius Brutus, is credited with founding the Republic in 509 BCE by deposing the last Tarquin king. Son to Marcus Junius Brutus the Elder and Servilia Caepionis, Brutus lost his father at an early age. He was officially adopted by his uncle, Quintus Servilius Caepio, whose name he took for an unspecified part of his life. Brutus’ formal education came under the tutelage of his mother’s half-brother, Cato the Younger. Cato, both a philosopher and politician of the time, was a Stoic who would be remembered for his unflinching resistance to corruption and support of Republican values.
This was the first in a series of cities named Alexandria. Next, Alexander went to battle with the Persians in ancient Mesopotamia and was again victorious. He followed this with the conquest of Babylon and the acquisition of the Persian Treasures of gold and silver. Alexander began pursuing the Persian King, Darius III, who had been evading him since his conquest of Persia. When Darius was finally killed by one of his kinsmen, Alexander took the title and office of ‘Great King of the Persians’ (Duicker 2009).
On the cover of the novel The Guillotine: It’s Legend and Lore, by Daniel Gerould, a guillotine stands in the mist (Document 2). This is the way it has been perceived since its conception by Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin. Another way that the guillotine was used as a form of mental warfare was when famous political leaders and important citizens were executed publicly. This was done to Marie Antoinette and her husband and King of France, Louis XVI. They were killed publicly and they were heckled all the while.
Without the Diaspora the Romans might have crushed the entire Jewish religion by devouring the revolts and their siege of Jerusalem. Now their own country of Israel the Jews have been given their homeland and with the rivaling Babylonians to the east in Mesopotamia they are at risk. In five hundred and eighty seven BC the Jews biggest fears are realized. Under Nebakanezer, Babylon invades Israel and pillaged all the cities and took all the captives they could carry. Those who escaped Nebakanezer are now categorized into the Jewish Diaspora (Diaspora).
The Monarchy has lost total control of the country and rebels have taken control. During the Revolution, King Louis XVI was executed, Robespierre came into and out of power, and the guillotine beheaded between eighteen and forty thousand people. King Louis XVI became king of France on June 11th, 1775, at Reims. His Queen was Marie Antoinette of Austria, daughter of Francis I, Archduke of Tuscany. He reigned from 1775 until his execution in 1793.