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in the Christian Holy War, although it was the product of a train of thought already in his mind before November 1095: at Piacenza in the previous March he had replied to the appeal from the Greeks by urging men to take an oath to help God and the Byzantine emperor against the pagans....
Who was Emperor Constantine I? Christianity in Rome: From its conception, Christianity would spread in the Roman Empire; however, many of the emperors and Senates looked upon the religion with disdain, and some would outlaw it and kill or persecute believers. There were a few emperors and Sen...
Who was the most feared conqueror? Genghis Khan founded the Mongol Empire and became one of the most feared conquerors of all time. Which emperor conquered the most? The largest contiguous empire in history, the Mongol Empire emerged from the unification of Mongol and Turkish tribes underGenghis...
He encouraged military support for the Byzantine Emperor Alexios I against the Seljuk Turks and an armed pilgrimage to Jerusalem. A precedent was set by the enthusiastic western European response across all social strata. Historians debate the combination of motivations of the volunteers who took a ...
Damascius 529 AD last head after the Byzantine Emperor orders the closing of the "pagan" Academy (Christian religion is the only religion allowed) 1 Plato (ΠλάτωνοΑθηναίος) (427-347 BC) Plato (427 - 347 BC) holds a copy of his Timaeus, and gestures upward to ...
Thus, when Caligula was killed by his own bodyguard, Rome let out a sigh of relief. Or so we are told by the sources. But the sources were written by authors who had grudges against the boy-emperor. Not only were they senators, they were members of the elite, opposing Caligula at ...
Alexios Komnenos, Byzantine emperor, led his army to meet the Scythian hordes in battle. For good luck, he carried one of the holiest relics in Christendom: the veil that had belonged to the Virgin Mary. Unfortunately, it didn’t help. N...
Veronica Kalas, a Smithsonian expert on the ancient through Byzantine periods of Greece, tells NBC Insider. "Athletic competitions were in honor of the gods and a truce was made among city states in order for athletes to participate every four years." Many of the physical gauntlets featured at...