their rule over the empire. The Kangxi emperor (r. 1661—1722), for instance, led the court on a number of “Southern Tours”(nanxun) to the lower Yangzi basin, undertook pilgrimages to holy mountains and religious shrines, and frequently traveled north of the Great Wall to hunt and conduc...
disseminated different images of rulership to the five subject peoples of the empire. As noted earlier, the Qing emperors presented themselves as Confucian monarchs within the former Ming territories. Manchu princes hailed the emperor as “divine lord”(Ma. enduringge ejen), and their rela tionshi...
He had gained much respect and admiration among the Romans as a fair ruler. He emerged as a ruler who supported Christianity and then became popular as a Christian ruler himself. His reign and victory over the Roman Empire is a significant event in the history of Christian religion. With ...
Although Julius Caesar is largely considered to be Rome's first individual ruler since the days of the last king of Rome,Lucius Tarquinius Superbus (Tarquin the Proud), in all but name, it was not until he was succeeded by his nephew Octavian, whom he adopted as his son, that the time ...
Ultimately Constantine — who was the son of one of the four emperors — prevailed in the civil wars, becoming ruler of the entire Roman Empire in A.D. 324, before dying in A.D. 337. Many ancient Christians and modern-day historians believe that Constantine himself converted to Christianity...
King Arthur is the most famous figure to seek the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper, but others came before him—and their tales are as ornate as the object itself.
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I THE NATIVE RULER : Five Men Character Studies From the Roman EmpireCharlesworth, Martin Percival
Note that although the word Caesar signifies the ruler of the Roman emperor, in the case of the first of the Caesars, it was just his name. Julius Caesar was not an emperor. 02 of 12 Octavian (Augustus) Gaius Octavius—known as Augustus—was born on September 23, 63 BCE, to a prospe...
between ruler and ruled than was the case with Han imperial families. On the one hand, non-Han groups who embraced warrior values and a martial culture relied not just on force, but on a climate of fear, to overwhelm rivals and to impose a new political order. Part of what made them ...