The life of Jesus‚ and the spread of Christianity The beginning: Jesus was born to Mary and Joseph sometime in the fourth century according to the gospel of Matthew. The exact date is not sure because there were no records kept at that time. It was told that Mary had conceived a child before she was married to Joseph. In that time‚ it was taboo to have a child before marriage. When Joseph found out about this‚ he was going to call off the wedding. That night an angel appeared to him in a dream
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Oppidum Ubiorum a Roman outpost located in present day Cologne‚ Germany. Agrippina died on March 23‚ 59 AD in Miseno‚ Italy. Agrippina was the first daughter and fourth living child of Agrippina the Elder and Germanicus. She had 3 older brothers‚ Nero‚ Drusus and Caligula‚ and 2 younger sisters‚ Drusilla and Julia Livilla. She lived during the Julio-Causian Dynasty and she was connected to many families during this dynasty because of the marriage of her parents. As a result‚ she is part of many
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family bloodline as an incentive for marriage. During her years of marriage she was greatly influential‚ received many privileges and secure the succession by convincing Claudius to adopt Nero. The death of Messalina opened a new window of opportunity for Agrippina to achieve her life’s ambition of watching her son‚ Nero‚ ascend the throne. To do this‚ she had Lucius Vitellius‚ convince the senate to change their laws on incest‚ as Claudius was her uncle. According to the ancient sources‚ Tacitus and
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“Julian Princess”‚ or woman from the Julian bloodline‚ he was made consul in AD32 for a year by Caligula‚ extended from the usual six month period. Apart from the protection Gnaeus provided for Agrippina‚ the birth of Agrippina’s only child‚ Nero‚ was another. Nero‚ born as Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was born in AD37‚ breech. A baby being born breech was widely perceived as ill-omened‚ however‚ ill-omened was how Agrippina’s life was said to be‚ predicted by a soothsayer that her son‚ in the future
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position of power enabled her to be more influential than most other women of her era. She was born of both Julian and Claudian bloodlines. She was a descendant of the Emperor Augustus‚ nice and later wife of Claudius‚ sister of Gaius and mother of Nero. Her mother‚ Agrippina the Elder‚ and father‚ Germanicus‚ were well respected figures in Roman society‚ which also contributed to her importance. Her first two marriages to Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Gaius Sallutius Passienus Crispus‚ gave her
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Suetonius (c. ad70–122) Life and relevant background Suetonius was born in Africa c.ad70 into a wealthy equestrian family. He trained as an orator (the usual education for an aspiring politician) and was an expert in rhetoric. He became a close friend and client of the Senator Pliny the Younger‚ who described him as ‘quiet and studious‚ a man dedicated to writing’‚ and ‘a man of the highest honesty and achievement’. Pliny introduced him to the Emperor Trajan‚ and Suetonius got jobs in the
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attitudes‚ there comes some negative ones towards technology too. This means that people did not take the new inventions for granted and just ignored them. This is best demonstrated by Seneca‚ an upper-class Roman philosopher and adviser to Emperor Nero‚ who says that he believed that tools were not invented by wise men. He says this because it was not important to him and he did not pay attention to which invention came first. This is further explained by Huan Guan‚ a Han government official‚ who
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Is it worth losing a republic in order to gain an empire? For: The age of Augustus could be shown as classic example of the benefits of having a empire instead of a republic. He himself ascended to the throne after the assassination of his adopted father and‚ brought peace throughout the total empire which lasted for over two centuries. This was possible as he successfully defeated all the threatening forces to the empire. “Indeed he attracted everybody’s goodwill by the enjoyable gift of peace
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Before the middle ages‚ the spread of Christianity to Europe was complicated and it was accompanied with a number of persecution acts by the Roman Empire. There is a question that whether the Roman Empire persecuted Christians for ideological reasons or not. It is apparent that in that period of time‚ Christianity has been approached as a threat by Roman religion which has performed a major role in the development of the Roman Empire (Wasson‚ 2013). So‚ the persecutions of Christians were accompanied
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Julio-Claudian reign that the Roman Empire reached an optimum level of power and wealth‚ and has been seen as the golden age of Roman arts and literature. The beginning of the Julio-Claudian dynasty was signified by the succession of Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar‚ most commonly known as Tiberius‚ to the throne in AD14. Tiberius appears to have been the most capable and experienced of the Julio-Claudian emperors‚ due to his military‚ administrative and diplomatic abilities. He was a capable and forceful
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