Z. Alexander History 101 25 July 2012 Augustus Caesar and His Historical Legacy Augustus Caesar was a highly respected ruler of the Roman Empire. Augustus rose to his power after his uncle‚ Julius Caesar‚ was killed. He was forced to clean up the mess Julius had left after his assassination. The Roman Republic was shattered after all the fighting that took place to decipher the future leader of Rome. The problems that occurred were not from outside threats‚ it was inside the city where the disruption
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The Classical empires of Rome and Han had similar and different means of imperial administration. Both empires focused on centralized administration and military expansion. They also concentrated on maintaining a full bureaucracy to help the empire prosper. The beginning for the direction of government and administration started with Julius Caesar wanting a centralized‚ imperial form of government. His plans did not span out with upset elite classes that led to his assassination. The elite men
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The Imperial Roman Empire (31 BCE- 476 CE) and the Han dynasty (206-220 CE) were considered the strongest empires of their time and nearly unrivaled in conquest and expansion of their empires. They both varied in similarities and differences such as government‚ belief systems and economy. Both imperial Rome and Han China had a complex political system which was called a bureaucracy in which they established long periods of peace and prosperity within their empires. The Roman government leadership
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to 476 C.E. Both empires were lead by an emperor‚ who was the sole lawmaker for the empire‚ the over thrower of the previous leader and impact on many other aspects of the region. However‚ these two empires differed in their religious ways. In the Roman Empire‚ the government had a state sponsored religion and emperors participated in the organization of it. Contrary to Imperial Rome‚ Han China’s emperors were much less concerned with religion; instead they followed the Confucian ideology in their
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The Roman Oration was written and delivered by Aelius Aristides‚ a popular Greek orator who lived during the Roman Empire‚ glowingly praising the Pax Romana (which literally means Roman Peace). In this oration‚ Aristides used hyperbole and exaggeration to describe the Roman Empire whilst managing to capture the universalism and cosmopolitanism that characterized it. Pax Romana was not only the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire
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of the Roman Republic‚ and at the time was gaining unlimited power. Caesar gained so much power‚ that he was being considered as the “King of Rome”. Power became the key to life in Rome‚ and the Senate was frightened by Caesar’s tremendous amounts of power. Due to this fear‚ they began to plot a plan to bring down Caesar. The term‚ mos maiorum‚ which is the “way of the elders”. The Romans believed that old rituals turn out to be good things. The term res nouge means new‚ which to Romans means a
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The Republican period of Roman history began in 509 BCE after the last Etruscan kings was dropped. The Republic was controlled by the Senate‚ which was an assembly by dominated upper-class families. This dominance by the aristocracy led to tensions between the social classes‚ especially among the lower classes who fought for equality in both the economy and the government. Despite these inner struggles‚ Rome’s military power strengthened throughout the 5th and 4th centuries BCE and by 270 BCE
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Han China was one of the longest dynasties in Chinese history‚ however‚ the Imperial Roman empire lasted even longer. Han China and Imperial Rome share many similarities as well as many differences. Although Han China and Imperial Rome had many similarities (patriarchy‚ expansion)‚ the differences (recruitment‚ system of who is in authority) in methods of political control outweigh the similarities because of they had little interaction with each other. The first similarity between Han China and
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advancement; Romans borrowed many things from the 3 groups * Rome was far enough inland to avoid direct assault from the sea but had access to water and its port city Ostia from the Tiber River Struggle of the Orders: the plebeians (commoner) rebelled against the patricians (aristocrat) for more equal rights * patricians were determined by birth‚ not wealth; plebeians could influence the patricians because Rome had a citizen militia at the time and there
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south Decumanus : east west toga Romulus Remus Sabines: used party as form of distraction to distract sabines women and conquer the men. Tarquin (Rex) ( title for king): form of monarchy Kings. Estrucian dynasty began with the tarquin Romans never liked tarquins. Latium: Numa Pompilius: king of religion from 716 B.C. to 673 B.C. Monarch for religion Tullius Hostilius : monarch for political institution Invented commoners (comitia curiata) Invented economy 673-642 Ancus
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