honorable men. THE CALL: Maximus’ journey starts when the dieing Emperor‚ Marcus Aurelius‚ asks him to be Rome’s new emperor when he passes. He does not feel that his son‚ Commodus is fit to rule. When Marcus tells the news to Commodus‚ Commodus is outraged and suffocates his father while hugging him. Since the Emperor had not announced his wishes for Maximus to take the throne publicly‚ the heir‚ Commodus‚ became the new emperor of Rome. Commodus then asks for Maximus’ allegiance to him and to
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spread throughout the empire more rapidly than ever. In 395‚ Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. Romans changed their frame of mind too and they started to consider their emperor as a god. Christians again did not believe that their emperor was a god‚ which again put the emperor in a vulnerable and weakened position. This was just the first domino to fall knocking others down with it. The army soon became disloyal and it lead to the entire empire collapsing. There would be
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cultural roots of the Chinese generations. The first record of a seal in China was from 544 BC‚ during the Spring and Autumn period; right after Chinese ancestors could make potteries and owned properties. When the first dynasty was established‚ the emperor began to use seals. These seals were created for the purpose of making marks on people’s own possessions to avoid mix up and prevent theft. The quantity of the seals increased over time. Until the end
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Emperor Hirohito was Japan’s 124th emperor who is vital to the history because he played a major role within world history. He was known as the Showa Tenno emperor. Showa is translated into "enlightened peace" and Tenno is translated into "heavenly sovereign." This is exceptionally ironic because he was the emperor during numerous disasters (Hirohito‚ 2005). The worst war Japan had ever seen and a depression are just a few of the events that occurred throughout history. According to the Japanese
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stability‚ some emperors‚ like Constantine I‚ turned to “Divine assistance” (Eusebius‚ Chapter 27). Eusebius was a historian and close bishop to the first Christian Roman emperor‚ Constantine I. Although the inconsistency of religious orders by emperors in the 4th century may depict a weak relationship between Rome and Christianity‚ other religions actually lost prominence as Christianity became the leading religion that unified a crumbling Roman empire. In‚ “The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine”
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were many factors that contributed to the collapse of the Empire. A major cause of the collapse was due to an unstable government and political corruption. Unlike the Greeks‚ the Romans did not have a stable system to decide how emperors would be chosen. Basically‚ the emperor would be chosen by the
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embraced by Qin’s First Emperor during 213 BC. Books of the hundred schools of thought on ideologies and philosophers of the Spring and Autumn/Warring states period. Included Confucianism and Taoism were burned. This led to the vanishing of various scripts on schools of thought and added to open dispute from civilians against Qin’s rule. The first emperor Qin Shi Huang want to be in complete power and so in the event that researchers had distinctive thoughts on issues the emperor would assemble books
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Emperor Kangxi: Valedictory Edict Emperor Kangxi was considered and still is thought of as one of the greatest emperors in Chinese history. Kangxi’s reign was longer than that of any other ruler in Chinese history. One of his most notable achievements was uniting China after the turmoil upon the collapse of the Ming. A main reason for the Chinese granting him the mandate of heaven or granted the right to rule China from permission of the heavens was his knowledge and respect for
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Augustus Vs. Alexander the Great There are many ways in how a ruler or “emperor” manages an empire. In the past there have been many leaders each with different styles of ruling‚ yet have some similarities. An example of this is Augustus and Alexander the Great. Both achieved many things but obtained them in different ways. Augustus formerly known as Octavian was a military dictator and a very ruthless ruler. He was Julius Caesar’s grandnephew who united with Marc Antony to kill the people responsible
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The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was a German World War II fighter aircraft that was designed by Willy Messerschmitt and Robert Lusser around the early 1930’s. It was one of the first modern fighters of the time period. It included features such as all metal monocoque construction (type of body construction that doesn’t require a separate frame to provide structural strength or support for mechanical components)‚ a closed canopy‚ a retractable landing gear‚ and was powered by a liquid-cooled‚ inverted V12
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