The veneration of icons had been banned by Emperor Leo III because he suspected Christians as executing Idolatry among religious matters but he died in AD 741 but the iconoclasm hasn’t been stopped there because it was continued by his successors especially his son Constantine V‚ In 754 Constantine summoned the Council of Hieria in which some 330 to 340 bishops participated and which was the first church council to concern itself primarily with religious imagery. Constantine seems to have been closely
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The Roman Empire was without a doubt the most powerful governing body in the Mediterranean ever. Why did Rome fall? There was not any single cause to the fall of Rome. It was many things occurring in succession to each other. After the Punic wars with Carthage‚ Rome acquired many new lands that it did not have before. During peace times it was easy to govern these areas but during war times it proved difficult. The government had to pay soldiers to patrol the frontiers of the empire; it could
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Han Dynasty and The Western Roman Empire are two of the greatest empires that have ever lived but that all comes to an end when disasters start occurring left and right. However‚ the methods of achieving greatness varied immensely their actions had helped them in the long run but soon failed miserably. Both empires had problems with social in takes. The Han Dynasty had problems with taxations‚ peasants grew angry over the raise of taxes and revolved against china so they used the military to stop
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Diocletian‚ who split the eastern and western halves of the empire into separate administrations. The splits were institutionalized by Constantine‚ who moved his capital to the city of Byzantium. He did it because the empire was too big for one seat of administration to manage. Also the Easter (Greek) part of the empire resented the rule of the western (Latin) part of it‚ so this was also to appease the people of the eastern part of the empire. With now two capitals competing for resources and attention
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rise and fall of an ancient society. The ancient society that the bubble is being compared to is the ancient Roman Empire. In the beginning‚ much like the bubble‚ the Roman Empire began as a small “bubble” much like the civilizations at that time. Through combining the strength of the farmers and noble class the Roman Empire began to gain power. Through this unity‚ the Roman Empire began to
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able to maintain some culture due to the religions Confucianism and Hinduism. One of the causes of the collapse of all three civilizations is that all three empires were ridden with political corruption during their later years‚ all three suffered under poor leadership‚ and moral decay also characterized the fall of these once great empires. In Han China the central government’s control disappeared‚ and as a result‚ the bureaucracy became more corrupt. Due to this loss of power‚ local proprietors
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Once the Roman empire collapsed‚ Christian Europeans civilizations began to emerge in Western Europe. The Frankish rule the emerged from within Rome established a Christian state that lasted that was founded by Clovis and was continually passed down to the sons from the Merovingians founded by Clovis‚ the Carolingians led by Charles Martel and Pepin III‚ to the age of Charlemagne following Pepin’s death. Although Charlemagne’s empire was able to improve the status of Western Europe‚ after Charlemagne’s
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In 313 AD‚ the Edict of Milan was established. This edict was the outcome of a political argument between the roman emperors Constantine and Linicius. It established toleration for Christianity in the Roman Empire permanently. The Edict of Milan granted freedom to everyone to worship whatever god they pleased. It allowed Christians legal rights including the right to organize churches‚ and directed the rapid return of confiscated property to Christians. After years of Christians being persecuted
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because Roman Empire was just too big‚ making it collapse. Others say the empire spent too much of its resources on the poor‚ drawing away much needed funds from the empire. Another theory was that plagues reduced the population to the point it could not sustain itself‚ and another was that the citizens of Rome became too satisfied and lazy‚ allowing the empire to crumble due to neglect. The list goes on and on; did the empire bureaucracy become too top heavy‚ eventually causing the empire to collapse
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plethora of reasons such as economic instability and succession issues. However‚ a major factor that contributed to the fall of Rome was the invasion of the Germanic tribes. The Germanic tribes were outside invaders who attacked the borders of the Roman Empire and created political disruption which inevitably lead to the fall of Rome. In 200 CE‚ Rome was at its height. But after the fall of Rome‚ Europe turned to feudalism. After the fall of Rome in 476 CE‚ Europe socially stayed the same. In 200 CE‚ Rome
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