Britannica Quiz The Roman Empire A source of strength in the early Middle Ages, Byzantium’s central geographical position served it ill after the 10th century. The conquests of that age presented new problems of organization and assimilation, and those the emperors had to confront at precisely ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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-...
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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Siyah K'ak'or Fire is Born arrived from the west. It's thought that Siyah K'ak' was a foreign general serving a figure represented asSpearthrower Owl,an image well known in Teotihuacan, likely representing its ruler. It seems that Siyah K'ak' led an invasion of forces from Teotihuacan,...
[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 ...
Wanda’s mother is Black; her father the son of one of Hitler’s rocket scientists, an Air Force colonel working on the space program who used to beat Wanda with a steel ruler when she let slip that her mother was neither white nor dead. The ambiguity of identity is a major theme in...