The growing glorification of individual leaders reached a turning point when Caesar became the first living Roman to appear on a coin, a stark departure from tradition. After being declared dictator for life, his assassination by senators angered the public and triggered a power struggle and civil ...
What reforms did Caesar make after becoming dictator of Rome? What was the legacy of ancient Rome? How did the Roman Empire consolidate power? How was the feudal system of Rome developed? What consequences did conquests bring to the Roman Republic?
How did the Parthian Empire collapse? How did Sulla become dictator? How did Roman law contribute to the modern world? How did people join the Roman Senate? How democratic was the Athenian democracy? How did Sulla contribute to the fall of the Republic?
He installed hundreds of his allies in the Senate and in effect became a dictator. Then he initiated a sweeping series of governmental changes. He commanded artists to create works of art in his likeness, which were installed all over the country. Caesar's egotistical power grabs hardly went ...
The defense of anything boils down to its right to exist. And its right to exist depends on how useful it is, whether it solves a problem, improves life. Thus, defense of the Constitution must necessarily include an explanation of the problems it was des
WEINECK: In his last years, he worked as a greeter at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, andhe died in 1981. He was 66 years old. WEINECK: What always gets me really in the gut is that Max Schmeling, Hitler’s favorite boxer, did extremely well, lived to a very old age. But not ...
scattered out across the way and change population density. Since 5% of the population was patricians the patricians that did live in the country often owned farms and had slaves do work for them. So, it caused their to be much higher population density it certain sections. It was not an...
The voices ring perfectly true and the parody finds its mark particularly when they start the skewering with the often revived Broadway productions ofCabaret(Hayward and Stern) – a show I loved, but many NYC critics did not – and almost every Sondheim show they can slide into the program....
many factors could be considered “lucky mistakes” or unpredictable. For instance, Clinton's effort to reduce the deficit shouldn't necessarily have helped with unemployment rates, but it did. The reduction of the deficit aided in bank recapitalization, which pumped up the economy and reduced une...
And that’s what leads us to Ukraine, where Putin did realise that actually he’d gone too far and that Ukraine was not Syria. But even Zelenskyy has said we should have paid more attention to Syria at the time. And so today, it’s very important for the US to pay attention to wh...