Connor Arch 1301 3 Dec 2008 Emperor Hadrian Hadrian has been described as the one of most remarkable emperors that ever served Rome. Hadrian was born on January twenty-fourth in the seventy-sixth year in Rome‚ though his family is of Spanish decent. Hadrian’s himself has imperial rights since his father Hadriatus was both cousins with Emperor Trajan and served in the senate himself for a short time. As an adult Hadrian is tall‚ and
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10 BC‚ d. 54 A.D.; emperor‚ 41-54 A.D.) was the third emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. His reign represents a turning point in the history of the Principate for a number of reasons‚ not the least for the manner of his accession and the implications it carried for the nature of the office. During his reign he promoted administrators who did not belong to the senatorial or equestrian classes‚ and was later vilified by authors who did. He followed Caesar in carrying Roman arms across the English
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1. Bismarck’s Legacy German Unification Germany was a new country‚ which had emerged from nationalism. However in 1800 there had been 400 states which were known as the Holy Roman Empire – each with its own ruler. After the Napoleonic Wars‚ the Holy Roman Empire came to an end and the number of states reduced to 39 which became known as the German Confederation in 1815. Prussia and Austria (the two most powerful states) competed for leadership of the confederation. Prussia in 1834 set up a
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------------------------------------------------- Mughal emperors The Mughal era is a historic period of the Mughal Empire in South Asia (mainly Northern India‚ North Eastern Pakistan and Bangladesh). It ran from the early 15th century to a point in the early 18th century The imperial family directly descended from two of the worlds greatest conquerors[citation needed]: Genghis Khan‚ founder of the largest contiguous empire in the history of the world; and the Amir‚ The Mughal Empire lasted for
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THE UNIFICATION OF GERMANY In 1871 the thirty-eight states of what was once the Holy Roman Empire‚ re-united to become what was known in the early twentieth century as simply‚ The German Empire‚ united under the rule of the German Emperor‚ or Kaiser. There are many factors which led to the unification of the German states; liberalism‚ nationalism‚ Otto Von Bismarck‚ fear of another Napoleon’‚ the Prussian King William I‚ and the three wars Prussia fought. One of the key factors which led to
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and govern his empire the way he did? He used a combination of his personal charisma and intelligence‚ the feudal system‚ the Church‚ and war in order to create the greatest Empire since the time of the Romans. His dislike of corruption‚ and his power in battle all contributed to his success as Emperor. Charlemagne himself was the key to his own success. He himself was a charismatic man‚ with an incredible amount of vital energy‚ and a desire to do well. An example of this was that he studied a lot
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In spite of the fact that preachers like Patrick and Augustine had made Christianity immensely fruitful in the British Isles‚ there was truly just a single tribe in the entire of territory Europe who were standard Christians — the Franks‚ whose King had changed over in 496. The others were all agnostics or Arians. This changed when Charles the Great‚ or "Charlemagne" moved toward becoming King of the Franks‚ administering from 771 to 814. He was an incredible military hero‚ and directed this ability
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Charlemagne was the crowned ruler of "Emperor of the Romans" by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day. The significant is that he was the first over 300 years that Europe was not a broken compound of transferring and competing warrior tribes‚ but instead a collection of stable nation-states. Extreme stability happened when Charlemagne’s Carolingian Frankish Empire was formed. Both parties involvement had different reasons behind the coronation. Pope Leo’s drive for crowning Charles included an opportunity
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held sentiment toward France‚ and the others were impressed and took pride in lining up with the German states. The German states held mixed feelings toward the region Alsace-Larraine region. Even thou it was among the German territories of the Holy Roman Empire‚ most of the region came under French control during the reign of Louis XIV. In document 3‚ the German government proclaimed that since Alsace-Lorraine was restored to the German Empire‚ the suppression of German language and culture would
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powerful state for its size (figure 2 shows how diverse Europe had become religiously). This hatred fire would spread throughout Europe by way of the Holy Roman Empire. Holy Roman Empire is a group of states loosely held together by a weak constitution. Ambitious war lords of large states wanted more territory and this power vacuum of the Holy Roman Empire was a perfect place to nip away at the country side. Once Sweden joined the war it was becoming ever clearer the motivation for war was becoming
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