A she-wolf found and raised them, but when they grew up, Romulus fought and killed Remus and became the first ruler of Rome! 4) The Romans built such a huge empire and conquered new lands, thanks to their strong army. The Roman army could march up to 40km a day! 5) During battle...
Emperor Constantinewas born at a time when the Roman Empire was in great political turmoil. The rise of Rome, which started with Augustus, was over. The emperors were deposed one after another, and the new ruler could not remain in power for more than a few years. The period of chaos e...
It was most probably due to influences from China where the “one world, one ruler” ideology had a long tradition. The creation of nomad empires in the steppes and the attempts to extend their rule over the more settled parts of central Asia and finally over the whole known world may ...
’s victory confirmed his role as ruler of the Western Empire. According to ancient sources, Constantine converted toChristianityjust before the battle, which likely affected his decision to end Christian persecution and establish Christianity as the most favoured religion within the Roman Empire....
An additional factor in Louis's thinking was the prevailing contemporary European principle to assure socio-political stability, cuius regio, eius religio ("whose realm, his religion"), the idea that the religion of the ruler should be the religion of the realm (as originally confirmed in ...
For the first 500 years of its history, no single person held absolute power in Rome, but that all changed over the 500 years that followed. Many of the previous structures of the Roman Republic remained in place, but the Roman Empire had one overall ruler, the self-declared divine emperor...
Thus lived and died Osiris. Thereafter in the hidden, spiritual world, he became the ruler of the dead, the judge in the Hall of Truth, and to his throne come all mortals to be judged. Thus far the narrative, which, we must believe, embodies the direct facts of Osiris’ life on eart...
This was a way of preventing a ruler from having too much power. Roman Republic: Location Before Rome became an empire in 27 BCE, the Roman Republic consisted of places such as North Africa, Greece, modern-day France, and the Iberian Peninsula. The Roman Republic was a safe and well-...
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[214] Elizabeth was praised as a heroine of the Protestant cause and the ruler of a golden age. James was depicted as a Catholic sympathiser, presiding over a corrupt court.[215] The triumphalist image that Elizabeth had cultivated towards the end of her reign, against a background of ...