Extractions: Although all countries have visible remains of their history, Mexico seems to have reminders of its past in just about every town you visit. Due to Mexico's vast history this portion of Mexico Connect contains an overview of the country's history which shows what the rest of the world was up to as Mexico evolved. We have also divided Mexico's history into several smaller categories in order to help you achieve a greater understanding of the evolutionary and revolutionary processes that have made Mexico what it is today.
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Extractions: and the Slavs occupied the Illyrian Provinces. (Napisao: gosp. Marko Mareliæ - allthecookies@mindspring.com , s. Francisco - USA) German tribes exerted pressure on the Roman frontier. In the 4th century A.D. most Germanic peoples in Europe were living east of the Rhine and north of the Danube. To the east, north of the Black Sea, were the East Goths (Ostrogoths) and the West Goths (Visigoths). To the west of these tribes and extending over a large area of the Rhine were the Vandals, Lombards, Alemanni, Burgundians, and Franks. In and near present day Denmark lived the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons. These groups were seminomadic, herding their flocks and tilling the soil. Large and vigorous, the people prized strength and courage in battle. They worshiped many gods, including Tiw, the god of war; Wotan, the chief of the gods; Thor, the god of thunder; and Freya, the goddess of fertility. (The names of these deities are preserved in the English words Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.) The German tribal assemblies were made up of voting freeman, and their laws were based on long-established customs of the tribe. These political practices were to have a strong influence in medieval England, where they laid a foundation for the rise of parliamentary government and English common law. The Roman historian Tacitus (55 to 117 A.D.), in his famous treatise
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Extractions: Updated June 2003 The Family Tree of Richard Brightwell What are the odds of having a famous ancestor? Pretty good if you can just go back far enough. After all you have 8 great grandparents and over 33 million 25th great grandparents, assuming there were no cousin marriages, although there probably were. Anyhow 33 million is a lot! The number exceeds 1 trillion by the time you reach the 40th generation. By the way this is said by some to be more people than have ever lived on the earth combined, so defiantly there were some cousin marriages somewhere! At any rate you can rest assured that you have some famous relatives even if your family tree is only 2 generations deep: Adam, Eve, Methuselah, and Noah. Every person on earth descended from them. Like I said... the odds are good if you go back far enough. Once I reached the 1600's my family tree was built almost entirely on family trees by other genealogists. It is believed to be accurate but has not been personally verified by me. Some relationships I have labeled as "speculative" since it relies on ancient genealogies of famous people, who may have influenced their own genealogical records to suit their egos or political aspirations. None the less, there is usually some foundation in truth to most such tales.
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Extractions: 742 - 814 A.D. Charlemagne (Charles the Great) was born on April 2, 742 in Northern Europe. "By the sword and the cross," he became master of Western Europe. Through his enlightened leadership the roots of learning and order were restored to Medieval Europe. In 768, when Charlemagne was 26, he and his brother Carloman inherited the kingdom of the Franks. In 771 Carloman died, and Charlemagne became sole ruler of the kingdom. At that time the Franks were falling back into barbarian ways, neglecting their education and religion. The Saxons of northern Europe were still pagans. In the south, the Roman Catholic church was asserting its power to recover land confiscated by the Lombard kingdom of Italy. Europe was in turmoil. Charlemagne was determined to strengthen his realm and to bring order to Europe. In 772 he launched a 30-year military campaign to accomplish this objective. By 800 Charlemagne was the undisputed ruler of Western Europe. His vast realm encompassed what are now France, Switzerland, Belgium, and The Netherlands. It included half of present-day Italy and Germany, and parts of Austria and Spain. By establishing a central government over Western Europe, Charlemagne restored much of the unity of the old Roman Empire and paved the way for the development of modern Europe. On Christmas Day in 800, while Charlemagne knelt in prayer in Saint Peter's in Rome, Pope Leo III placed a golden crown on the bowed head of the king. Charlemagne is said to have been surprised by the coronation, declaring that he would not have come into the church had he known the pope's plan. However, some historians say the pope would not have dared to act without Charlemagne's knowledge.
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Extractions: Famous PlumbingSupply.com T he Roman Empire eventually encompassed all the countries along the Mediterranean Sea, Mesopotamia, the Balkans, and most of modern Europe, including Britain. With their plumbing engineers in tow, the Romans left in their wake large - and small - scale water systems that incorporated similar-style aqueducts, lead pipes, heated floors, dams and drains. From Rome's Cloaca Maxima, largest of the ancient sewers, to the famous spas of Aquae Sulis in Bath, England, and the colossal baths of Emperors Caracalla and Diocletian, the early Roman plumbers left indelible marks on civilization. I n 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius erupted and obliterated the ancient Roman resort towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Beneath the lava ruins rests a freeze - frame of high style Roman living, thanks in part to the plumberium , workers of lead. Since 1758 when excavation began in Pompeii, palaces of the Caesars and private homes of the nouveau riche merchants and court hangers-on have emerged along with theaters, dance halls and circuses. In addition, grand-style temples and amphitheaters were uncovered, along with elaborate public baths for hundreds of people, and a water supply system for both private and public needs.
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Extractions: Roman Republic Roman Timeline Roman Objects The final round of civil wars that followed Caesar's assassination culminated in the battle of Actium in 31 BCE, and victory for Caesar's great-nephew and heir, Octavianus Caesar. Octavian had became sole master of the Roman world, but he wished to rule legitimately. In 27 BCE Octavian formally renounced his supremacy, but was granted perpetual imperium by a Senate and Roman people grateful for the new peace. Significantly, the Senate also granted Octavian tribunicia potestas or the powers of a tribune, enabling him to claim authority as the protector and champion of the Roman people. The Senate also gave Octavian the new name of Augustus, an honorific with holy connotations. Thus Augustus became, in effect, the first Roman emperor (imperator), but he could claim that his power was legitimately bestowed by the Roman Senate and people. Nonetheless, Augustus remained sensitive to Republican sentiment, and was careful to style himself simply as princeps or "leader." By the time of his death in 14 CE, Augustus had fashioned a new imperial system for Rome; one which respected Republican traditions and Senatorial prerogatives, but which concentrated the most important functions of the magistracy in the new supreme office of emperor. Thus, Augustus and his successors slowly accustomed the Romans to the institution of monarchy, transforming Rome from a Republic into an Empire.
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Extractions: Volume Thirty-Seven Essays in History Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. Scholars of Late Antiquity (the period roughly from A.D. 300-600) have long labored under the shadow of two monumental works: Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1787) and M. I. Rostovtzeff's Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire (1926). Though Gibbon, an intellectual of the Enlightenment, and Rostovtzeff, a Russian Marxist, approached their topic from very different viewpoints, they both agreed that the "transformation" of Western civilization from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages was a story of decline and decay. While Gibbon favored a moral and cultural explanation, Rostovtzeff not surprisingly emphasized economic and social factors. The last generation of scholars, however, has begun to revise this earlier scholarship. With the publication of A. H. M. Jones's The Later Roman Empire, 284-602. A Social, Economic and Administrative Survey
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Extractions: A Brief History of Rome The founding of Rome goes back to the very early days of civilization. It is so old, it is today known as 'the eternal city'. The Romans believed that their city was founded in the year 753 BC. Modern historians though believe it was the year 625 BC. A speech in the Roman senate Early Rome was governed by kings, but after only seven of them had ruled, the Romans took power over their own city and ruled themselves. They then instead had a council known as the 'senate' which ruled over them. From this point on one speaks of the 'Roman Republic'. The word 'Republic' itself comes from the Latin (the language of the Romans) words ' res publica ' which mean 'public matters' or 'matters of state'. The senate under the kings had only been there to advise the king. Now the senate appointed a consul, who ruled Rome like a king, but only for one year. - This was a wise idea, as like that, the consul ruled carefully and not as a tyrant, for he knew that otherwise he could be punished by the next consul, once his year was up. Rome knew four classes of people. This division was very important to the Romans.
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Extractions: about the Roman Empire Click on the link for it to take you to the answer ! What are the names of the seven hills of Rome ? How long did the Roman empire last for ? What does SPQR stand for ? Why did Rome rise ? ... Why did Rome fall ? Above are some questions received repeatedly by e-mail and in the bulletin board. Hence they have been answered here to make things easier both for the visitors seeking the answers and for me, the webmaster. If you feel other questions and answers should be included on this page, e-mail the webmaster at
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Extractions: Contents Previous Article Next Article Diocletian was born about A. D. 245 in Pannonia to common, peasant class parents. He found out early that his talents suited him for a military career so he joined the Roman Army at a young age and rose through the ranks swiftly. While a young soldier in Gaul, a soothsayer made a prophecy that Diocletian would become Roman Emperor after he had "slain the Boar." Though he killed many wild boars while hunting, he remained an army officer but was not made a Roman emperor no matter how many wild pigs he killed. He was commander of the emperor's personal bodyguard (PROTECTORES DOMESTICI) when the emperor Numerianus was murdered by his Praetorian Prefect, Arrius Aper. The troops immediately elevated Diocletian to the throne. Diocletian's first act was to try, condemn, and execute Aper with his own hand. This man's name, Aper, means boar, so the prophecy of Diocletian’s youth was finally fulfilled. Diocletian realized that the Roman Empire was way too vast to be ruled effectively by one man. While an emperor was at war with the Persians in the Syrian desert, Germanic barbarians might be pouring across the Rhine frontier, burning villas, pillaging towns, slaughtering the men and carrying off the women and children. By the time word of these atrocities reached the emperor, the barbarians would be long gone. Sometimes a local army commander might rebel and take the defense of the region into his own hands, as was the case with Postumus in Gaul just a fe years before Diocletian ascended the throne. The local citizens would feel neglected by the rightful emperor and would transfer their allegiance to the local ruler who often could and did defend them successfully from attack. The local emperor would usually form a breakaway or rebel empire.
Roman Emperors Links to sites providing informaton on various roman emperors for the Latin III class. http://www.tcps.k12.md.us/ehs/lib/romans.html
Extractions: Argos http://argos.evansville.edu - a search engine for information on Ancient and Medieval studies. Ancient Roman History Timeline http://www.exovedate.com/ancient_timeline_one.html - scroll down the page to find the timelines. http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/9/0%2C5716%2C86059+1+83869%2C00.html?query=romulus%20remus - the article from Britannica. HyperHistory http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html - (3000 years of world history with a combination of colorful graphics, lifelines, timelines, and maps.) Justin Paolas collection of Roman Emperors http://www.ece.arizona.edu/~justin/Emperors/baggin_emperors.html - visual presentations of many of the Roman Emperors. Kings of Rome http://members.nbci.com/bladesmaster/myths/rome.html - information about each of the kings and the republic. Numa Pompilius http://www.ancienthistory.about.com/homework/ancienthistory/library/weekly/aa052599.htm - great information and full explanation. Reign of Numa Pompilius http://pages.ancientsites.com/~Capernica_Marius/misc/numa.htm
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Extractions: India and China are the sources of the greatest civilizations in Eastern and Southern Asia. Their rulers saw themselves as universal monarchs, thereby matching the pretentions of the Roman Emperors in the West. The only drawbacks to their historical priority were that India suffered a setback, when the Indus Valley Civilization collapsed (for disputed reasons), and China got started later than the Middle Eastern civilizations. By the time India recovered, it was a contemporary of Greece, rather than Sumeria, with many parallel cultural developments, like philosophy. And, curiously, China reached a philosophical stage of development in the same era, the "axial age," 800 to 400 BC. Later, when the West, India, and China, all had contact with each other, it was at first India that had the most influence on China, through the introduction of Buddhism. Indian influence on the West, though likely through the skepticism of Pyrrho , and possibly evident in the halos of Christian saints (borrowed from Buddhist iconography), did not extend to anything more substantial. While China then made Buddhism its own, India later endured the advent of , which introduced deep cultural and then political divisions into the Subcontinent. The only comparable development in China was the application of
Extractions: In return, the patroni received respect and political favors. During the Empire cliens were required to offer daily greetings to their patroni , and the number of these salutatores , or greeters, were noted in determining someone's social status. Roman generals also served as patroni for the peoples they conquered, and various Roman provinces or cities would often seek out an influential Senator to act as patroni and oversee their interests in Rome.
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Extractions: zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') About History Ancient / Classical History Home ... Trojan War Hero Achilles - Troy zau(256,152,145,'gob','http://z.about.com/5/ad/go.htm?gs='+gs,''); Atlas and Places - Where? Ancient Greece - Greek Ancient Rome - Romans ANE Egypt Persia Israel... ... Help zau(256,138,125,'el','http://z.about.com/0/ip/417/0.htm','');w(xb+xb); Subscribe to the About Ancient / Classical History newsletter. Search Ancient / Classical History The Sons of Nubel and the Gildonic War Zammac, Firmus, Gildo and Mascezal Related Resources Theodosius I Nubel was a powerful Northern African, a Roman military officer and a Christian. Upon his death in the early 370s, one of his sons, Firmus, killed his half brother Zammac, illegitimate heir to Nubel's estate. While illegitimate, Zammac was the son of Nubel most favored by Romanus, the Roman imperial administrator in Africa. Firmus Reasonably, Firmus feared for his safety at the hands of the Roman administrator who had long mismanaged Roman properties in Africa. Romanus refused to defend Tripolitania against raids by other African tribes because Lepcis (one of the three major towns of Tripolitania) had failed to send Romanus enough booty for protection. When the Tripolitanians complained to Rome, Romanus diverted the blame and caused the execution of many prominent Africans.
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Extractions: The Hippodrome was an ancient Roman design to hold horse and chariot racing.The most famous one-The Circus Maximus- was 600 metres long and 200 metres wide. It could hold up to 250,000 people (1/4 the population of Rome). It was built into a hillside, and the material dug out was used to create support on the other side of the building. Seats ran in tiers around the u-shaped arena (except for the open end ). A fence ran down the middle - called a Spine- to make laps. Chariots were pulled by 2 - 4 horses, and were driven seven times around the ring at extremely fast speeds. Great skill was needed and sometimes a lot of accidents happened, and drivers were often trampled to death. Big crowds turned out to see the teams. There were four teams - reds, white, blues and greens - and each team, and their fans wore these colours. Huge bets were placed on the races. At one end of the track, there were 12 boxes, where the chariots wait. The judges sat above, who announced the start of the race, by dropping a white handkerchief. The rope in front of the horses was lifted and the race began. Drivers were famous and made a lot of money; Gaius Apuleis, charioteer of the reds, a Spaniard, aged 42 years , 7 months and 23 days. He drove his first chariot for the whites in AD 122. He won his first victory with the reds in AD 131.
Extractions: Royalty.nu World Royalty Europe Italy ... Rome > Caesar > Books About Caesar Search If you don't know much about Roman history, it may surprise you to learn that Julius Caesar was not born royal and it is debatable whether he should be called an emperor. But he set the stage for the restoration of Rome's monarchy and founded a family that ruled the empire for nearly 100 years. He was born around 100 BC and named Gaius Julius Caesar after his father, a low-ranking Roman official. Young Caesar's mother, Aurelia, was the daughter of a former consul. The family was not extremely wealthy or powerful, but they were well-connected members of Rome's aristocracy, the patrician class. Caesar was proud of his ancestry, claiming to be descended from both the legendary Roman king Ancus Marcius and the goddess Venus. Nonetheless, his family was identified with the popular or democratic party; his aunt Julia married the "new man" Gaius Marius, who had risen from a humble background to become a prominent politician and general. When Caesar was 15 or 16, his father died. At that time Rome was engaged in a civil war, and Caesar made it clear which side he was on by marrying Cornelia, daughter of the popular leader Cinna. The marriage did not turn out to be a good career move for Caesar in the long run. Cinna was murdered and his enemy Sulla seized control of the government. Sulla ordered Caesar to divorce Cornelia, but Caesar refused and went into hiding to avoid arrest. Eventually Sulla was persuaded to pardon the rebellious young man, but he warned his followers that Caesar would be the ruin of the patrician party.
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Extractions: The ancient state that centred on the city of Rome, from the time of the events leading up to the founding of the republic in 509 BC , through the establishment of the empire in 27 BC , to the final eclipse of the Empire of the West in the 5th century AD . (For later events of the Empire of the East, see Byzantine Empire The early historical record BC BC ) are the most poorly documented periods of Roman history. Historical writing at Rome did not begin until the late 3rd century BC Ancient Roman historians initially differed over the precise date of Rome's foundation. By the end of the republic, however, it was generally accepted that Rome had been founded in 753 BC and that the republic had begun in 509 BC , following the overthrow of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the last of Rome's seven kings. According to tradition, the first six kings had been benevolent rulers, but the last was a cruel tyrant who was overthrown by a popular uprising. The prevalent modern view is that the monarchy at Rome was incidentally terminated through military defeat and foreign intervention. This theory sees Rome as a site highly prized by the Etruscans in the 6th century
