The Empire, secure from both internal and external threats, prospered under the reign of the "good" emperors. This time period of peace is often referred to as thePax Romana("Roman Peace"). With the conquest of Dacia during the reign of Trajan, the Empire reached its peak of territorial ...
With over 800 rulers in its long history, who are the greatest Chinese emperors? The ones credited with Ancient China’s growth and survival as a major civilization?
theHan Dynasty(202 BC - 220 AD) of China became a very powerful country, roughly equal to the Roman Empire at that time. The era of Emperor Wu was the most prosperous period of the Western Han Dynasty and one of the greatest
2013Jonathan Glazer's emotionally blank, almost wordless sci-fi is a loose and oblique adaptation of Michel Faber's novel – to the extent that almost nothing explicitly survives the translation beyond the central premise of Scarlett Johansson's Woman Who Fell To Earth. Playing the alien with a...
by Germanic people whom the Romans had called savage.Consequently,the intellectual development of the European civilization was retarded or even regressed to some extent because of these so-called Dark Ages.It was also a period of some negative and repressive influence from ...
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire–II _I.–Decay of the Empire under Constantine_ The unfortunate Licinius was the last rival who opposed the greatness of Constantine. After a tranquil and prosperous reign, the conqueror bequeathed to his family the inheritance of the Roman Empire; a new ...
Eve's hair scrolling down her back, the serpent coiled around the tree trunk behind them, and the unbitten apple, cheekily, in Adam's hand, indicating his complicity in the fall of man, contrary to the book of Genesis. “It's the most beautiful object I have ever seen,” says Breit...
As I say, the wind-ups are not really androids (or it’s hard to see exactly how they’re conceived); but it is certainly stated that they are taught rather than programmed (though to what extent this is the case was never made clear), and all they are overcoming, when they rebel,...
The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international society is the subject of this book. It maps the changing legitimacy of humanitarian intervention by comparing the international response to cases of humanitarian intervention in the cold war an...