There, his soldiers proclaimed Constantine emperor, but much rivalry for the vacated office ensued. In Italy, Maxentius, supported by the Romans and by his father Maximian, vied with Severus and Galerius. Constantine, accepting the lesser title of Caesar from Galerius, remained aloof while Maxentius and Maximian defeated Severus and Galerius. Constantine made an alliance with Maximian, marrying his daughter Fausta and recognizing Maxentius after a fashion. When Maximian, in dispute with his son, fled to Constantine, Constantine received and sheltered him until Maximian, in an attempt to regain the throne, undertook a revolt against Constantine's rule in Gaul.
Rome had once led an empire that dominated the world. But that was long ago and now other European powers had empires (Britain, France) or wanted them. Hitler came to power in 1933, begun to rearm Germany and looked to re-unite Germany with Austria. Mussolini looked for a way to show Italy’s strength to the rest of Europe. Italy had tried and failed to conquer Abyssinia in 1896.
The role of the king was the most important reason why Mussolini was appointed prime minister. There is no single reason why Mussolini became Prime Minister of Italy in October 1922; there is a network of reasons. However, the ultimate decision as to who was appointed Prime Minister was the King's, so his role was the most important in appointing Mussolini at that particular time. His decision was based around the fear of the civil war if he had not signed Prime Minister Facta's decree for martial law two days before Mussolini's planned “March on Rome”. This was due to Mussolini and the Ras controlling much of Italy, emphasised by the huge mobilisation of squads in socialist areas at the end of July 1922 when the Alliance of Labour called a strike which had little support and lasted just 4 days.
As Wand believed, “This battle marks an epoch, for it helped to make the first Christian Empire and so affected the history of European civilisation down to the present time”. After their joint edict of toleration to all citizen AD313, Licinius began a renewal of persecution against Christians in AD319 believing their loyalty lay with Constantine. A final conflict ensued in AD324 in which Constantine was victorious and assumed as the sole emperor of the Roman Empire until his death in May AD337. After the Battle of the Mivilian Bridge, the Edict of Milan was expanded to include the East where according to Wand, “Christians were far more numerous” in which religious toleration to all, especially Christians was noted. It is a possibility that Contantine had Christian family members with his half sister being called Anastasia, meaning resurrection and he would have encountered Christians within Diocletian's courts.
Body: • The impacts of Caesar’s death on Octavian were the Senate’s arrangement and his inheritance. Following the assassination of his adopting father, Suetonius notes in The Lives of the Caesars that Octavian returned to Rome following military training in Spain and demanded Caesar’s will be ratified claiming his economical and political inheritance. Caesar’s will caused much tension between the new heir and his right-hand-man, Marc Antony. Antony was seen as a threat to the senate as he had spoken out against two of the senatorial murderers. Octavian was given consular powers hoping to contain Antony and fix many of Rome’s problems.
He shows that even in the toughest times he can be calm unlike Oedipus the King who starts to rampage when he knows that he is the one to blame for Laios’ death and is hiding it from the citizens, his people. When Oedipus cries out to be banishes, Creon acts kindly and grants him that wish, but it wasn’t just because he was asked for help, but because he knew that one Oedipus was gone he could come up and rule. These are the few times the Creon show’s up, but this is when he starts shaping and showing the ambitions he has to become king which he later in the other plays begins to develop. By the end of the tragedy Creon begins to show that he is kind, responsible and is a good leader. Oedipus makes sure that all the little times he comes out in Oedipus Rex, he can show the qualities of King and therefore he knows that people will want someone like him.
Alonso King of Naples and father of Ferdinand. Alonso helped Antonio in usurping Prospero’s dukedon in the early years. Alonso may have made some errors in the past, but he isn’t an evil-natured man, because throughout the play he seems aware of his past actions and he regrets them in the end. 1.He is also very naive because he doesn’t notice what Antonio and Sebastian are planing, which is to kill him so that Sebastian cam be king (this is shown at the end of the scene. Pg 83 L199-201 “I see... your head.” 2.In this scene alonso is devasteted because he thinks his son died when the shipwreck happened during the return journey from his daughter’s wedding in Tunis(pg 75 L102-105 “You cram... is lost-”).
Macedon is bordered by Greece and Greek, Epirus, Illyria, Independent Macedon tribes, Agriania and Paeonia, Thrace, and Tribalia (Philip II of Macedon). All of these surrounding territories will be conquered by King Philip II of Macedon. King Philip II of Macedon came into power in 359 BC. After his two older brothers and his father was killed. The transfer of power to Philip II form his father took a little more than a decade, family rivalry and a battle with the Illyrians put Philip II on the throne (Lendering).
That same year he gained control of Egypt; following Ali's death in 661, he subdued Iraq and then formally established himself as caliph. The first line of Umayyads were the Sufyanids (descendants of Abu Sufyan) who ruled from 661- 684. Under Muawiya (661-680) the capital of the Muslim empire was transferred to Damascus. He is credited with raising a highly-trained army of Syrian soldiers which was used to expand Muslim authority east into Khorasan and west into North Africa. Muawiya also led excursions into Anatolia beginning in 672 which culminated in an unsuccessful three-year seige of Constantinople (674-677).
Cortes’ Motives for Conquering Mexico Hernan Cortes, a Spanish conquistador, conquered a vast empire in Central America. Born in 1485 in Medellin, located in Western Spain, he originally studied law but left to the Americas in hopes of gaining power, making a fortune, and spreading Christianity, and was determined to attain what he wanted. Cortes’ motives for conquering Mexico were political, financial, and religious. Cortes had a strong desire to achieve political power, setting out to Mexico to attain it since his power in Cuba was already limited. When Cortes first moved to Cuba in 1511, he assisted Diego Velazquez, Cortes’ brother-in-law and governor of Cuba in his conquest of the island.