Scipio Africanus forced Carthaginians to accept peace Rome now ruled the seas and entire Mediterranean coast from Italy westward The New Imperial System Rome collected taxes The Republic’s Conquest of the Hellenistic World The East Philip 5th and Seleucid Antiochus 197 B.C.E. Philip defeated by Rome 189 B.C.E. Seleucid defeated Perseus 179 B.C.E. defeated in 168 B.C.E. divided Macedon into four republics The West Romans committed dreadful atrocities; lied, cheated, and broke treaties to exploit and pacify natives Religion 205 B.C.E.
A new government was then appointed and it seemed that the revolution was a success Over in Sicily, prisoners were released and offices were burned as there was a demand for constitution- finally the revolutionaries sent the Neapolitan governor home and took over the city. Unfortunately, King Ferdinand was called to a meeting, at Laibach where Metternich offered him his power back and help to crush the rebels. It was accepted and unfortunately the revolution in both Naples and Sicily was over. The equivalent happened in Piedmont as the opposition to King Victor were destroyed by the Austrian army. Each revolution in 1820/1 and
But sadly, instead the crusade was headed in a completely different direction. They were headed to the greatest Christian city in the world-Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine. This crusade was conceived in 1199 at a jousting tournament held by Thibaut, Count of Champagne at Ecry-sur-Aisne in France. In Venice, Villehardouin and his fellow envoys made an agreement with Doge Dandolo and his council. Venice would provide them transportation, crews, and a lot of men.
The chariots started from twelve gates on earthier side of the stadium. Above them sat the presiding officials with a white flag meaning that the race is about to begin. The charioteers had to do seven laps and it was five miles long. Up to twelve teams of horses raced on the track. Each team represented financial backers and competed for the
It can be argued that even though Gatsby’s dream is pure the fact you have to base your life around money and acquiring wealth and power to get expensive things shows how corrupt a simple dream can become. For Gatsby to have glamour in his life he must go through some sort of corruption, as it appears that glamour and corruption coincide with each other. Gatsby’s world can be seen as corrupt as the people who he is surrounded with appear to be fake. Gatsby lives on the dream that one day he can win back the married Daisy Buchanan and that she will return his feelings in love. However the people around Gatsby have no significance in their lives they do not strive to be anything this is shown when Daisy tells Nick that she wants her daughter to become a ‘beautiful fool’ because there is nothing better in life for a woman.
It was whilst fighting in Spain that he gained further notice by winning a mural crown by defeating a Spanish horseman in single combat and by arranging the surrender of Intercatia [4]. In 150 BC Scipio was a Legate to Masinissa to procure elephants and witnessed a battle between Masinissa and Hasdrubal and was called upon to mediate in a conference between them which ended without an agreement [5]. In 149 BC Scipio was serving in Africa where he distinguished himself and earned a corona obsidionalis in relieving a beleaguered army [6]. He was now popular in the army and his actions acclaimed in the senate by Cato as being alive and with valour [7]. Scipio was now old enough to stand for the Aedileship in 148 BC.
The mythographer Apollodorus also doesn't mention Italy. He does say however that Aeneas did carrying his father out of Troy, but he also says that the Greeks allowed him to leave the city because of his piety. However, this image of him escaping Troy with his father and son does appear in a 6th century BC vase painting. The earliest connections of Aeneas with Italy and Rome were found in the works of two Greek writers Hellanicus of Lesbos and Damastes of Sigeum. They actually say that Aeneas founded
Charles conquered Italy, and the territories in New Spain were tremendously extended due to the destruction of the Aztec and Incan empires by Spanish conquistadors. When Charles V paternal grandfather died he also inherited the Hasburg Monarchy. (Kleinschmidt 44) After the Battle of Pavia in 1525 Charles V controlled Italy, Spain, and he “shared” Germany with the Holy Roman Catholic Church. (Kleinschmidt 97) Charles left his son with the biggest Spanish Empire ever before, but along with that he left his son with a massive debt and an enormous military. Phillip II had a lot of land.
In 73BC Caesar returned to Rome after his assistance in military activities in Asia Minor and attack on the pirates who held him ransom. On his return he became a member of the College of Pontiffs, a pontifex, and shortly after, became a military tribune. After the death of his aunt Julia and wife Cornelia in 69BC, Caesar was elected as a quaestor at the appropriate age, and served in Further Spain. By 65BC, he served as curile aedile and it was around this time his public popularity increased. “He ran for pontifex maximus… Caesar won by a comfortable margin.
Alexander went south from Cilicia into Syria to Meso Potamia into Afghanistan then to Indus River Valley and finally to Punjab conquering everything with out losing a single battle. (Ancient Greece) Alexander planed on invading Rome, Carthage, Arabia, Regions north of the Persian Empire and India again, however he did not follow through. (Michael Hart 196) Alexander believed Greek to be the true civilized people and that every one else was barbaric, however this changed over time when he saw the Persians were great people and want to make Graeco-Persian. Graeco-Persian was a mix of Greeks and Persians, to make this plan a reality he took lots of Persians into his army, held a great feast were every one was invited, created “ the marriage of East and West,” were thousands of Macedonian troops formally married Asian women, and Alexander married the daughter of Darius. (196) Alexander had a Ferocious temper and had many drunken argument, in fact of one of his fights he killed Cleitus a close friend of his who ounce saved his life.