Roman Imperialism

Tacitus believes that Roman Imperialism has a variety of attributes that include prosperity, cruelty, and jealousy. He is more so critical of conquests attempted by people he does not favor. Tacitus is a great source of the Roman imperialist results as he lived through emperor’s who were thought to be effective and others who were unsatisfactory to say the least. He favored the Trajanic regime that he was serving under while criticized Domitian’s reign undoubtedly. Overall, his opinion on imperial rule was mostly negative since it promoted the corruption of the ruler and the ruled, increased secrecy, paranoia, cruelty and moral downgrades in the emperors, and an increase in greed, hypocrisy, and cowardice in the subjects. While he talks

It is said that the colonization of Africa by European settlers was significant in terms of politics, economic advances or economic failures, as well as the advancement of power and destruction of pre-colonial African Cultures. The two largest European powers striving to colonize Africa are France and Britain. There are three reasons for Europe’s interest in colonizing Africa. The first reason is the fact that Africa was an unknown and mysterious continent that has yet to be explored by European settlers or any settler for fact. Because of this Europe wanted to gather scientific data of the unknown African continent. The expeditions of explorers like Samuel Baker, Joseph Thompson, Richard Burton, John Speke, and some others in the nineteenth

Arthur Erickson said that, “Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today”. In Rome got two kinds of government, and there were Roman Empire and Roman Republic. Both of them had different structures to development on many aspects in Rome such as laws, equality and rights of life’s Roman where Rome wanted a democratic system. Although, it has helped later to now, in that time was a conflict where it created a war.

As history teaches, the Roman Empire was a great and solid empire. From the time of its birth to its fall the Roman Empire was known and remembered for its greatness. Yet through all of that, somehow, someway it fell apart. It became the million dollar question that almost everyone was asking themselves. How and why did the Roman Empire fall? The answer to that question is inconsistency and the lack of good leadership.

Tacitus believes that Roman Imperialism has a variety of attributes that include prosperity, cruelty, and jealousy. Imperialism can be a two-edged sword, bringing peace and prosperity during one reign, and fear the next. Tacitus is a great source of the Roman imperialist results as he lived through emperor’s who were thought to be effective and others who were unsatisfactory to say the least. He favored the Trajanic regime that he was serving under while criticized Domitian’s reign undoubtedly. Overall, his opinion on imperial rule was mostly negative since it promoted the corruption of the ruler and the ruled, increased secrecy, paranoia, cruelty and moral downgrades in the emperors, and an increase in greed, hypocrisy, and cowardice in the subjects. While he talks positively of Agricola’s victories over the Britanni, he has mixed opinions on other Roman conquests. He describes his father-in-;aw’s positive effect on integrating conquered peoples into society. Meanwhile, other talks of Roman greed and lust combined with extreme contempt for barbarian culture fills the pages of Agricola. Tacitus includes an enumeration of possible barbarian complaints of Roman rule with a declamation by a renowned Britanni leader, Calagus, that both describe the expansion of Roman influence as destructive rather than the spread of peace.

The Roman Empire was one of the biggest civilizations in world history. They had a lot of different ways of doing things but were they meeting the common good? Rome had to get the needs of everybody and they could only do that by meeting the common good. Some of the ways that Rome could meet the common good would be Promoting rule of law, Protecting rights, and preparing for defense.

Despite the fact that the Roman Empire ended thousands of years ago, many different parts of the empire survived and still have a huge impact on life today. The aspect of the empire that I believe have had the largest effect today is the legacy of writing and language. Many citizens of this famous empire believed that this empire would last forever. But due to weak borders, a changed capital, and a bad ruler the empire eventually met its end and collapsed. Despite this fact the power empire will forever live on for many generation to come.

What kind of technology in the Roman Empire affect its growth the most? I will be investigating from the start of the Roman Empire in 753 BCE to when the Western Roman Empire fell in 476 CE. This investigation will have a broad scope while investigating and include things from the Roman Legion to aqueducts and concrete. This investigation will not include technology that was not widely used to better the Roman Empire. The research question will answer my question by conducting research on how different groups of technology made the Roman Empire better based off of their potential uses and different contributions to Roman society.

What were important to the Roman Ethos were values, family, and religion. The romans valued loyalty, dependability, constancy, perseverance, and dedication. With any family there is a set of standards that everyone holds to and the Romans held these values high for many reasons. One, the strong bond they had with their families. “Families were dominated by men. At the head of Roman family life was the oldest living male, called the "paterfamilias," or "father of the family." He looked after the family's business affairs and property and could perform religious rites on their behalf” (PBS.org, 2016). If it were not for the loyalty and the dependability in their era ultimately the family would have crumbled. What I pride on reading about the roman ethos is that everyone lived together and each member of the family had a specific role or duty. Most importantly everything was kept inside of the family even the control of life and death. This may sound crazy but unlike today the family in the 21st century is broken and there is no loyalty. My family for instance at a young age I was groomed to think family was everything which it was, but now there are

Francis Schaeffer (n.d.) believes that the Roman Empire collapsed because it’s governing style lacked core fundamental standards. The empires growth was based on winning battles, seizing a great portion of the adversary’s land, turning them into slave workers, and military personnel (Rawls, 2016, p. 163). Indisputably, Rome’s expansionism techniques, inhumane treatment to others, and disregard to humankind eventually led to its decline. Unfortunately, the governmental body and citizens were not unified in their moral or ethical cultural values. Rome became a chaotic, every man for themselves society which made it difficult for the State to control undesirable behavior. In addition, Christianity also had an influence of Rome’s culmination, there was religious toleration by the emperor and the state, under one condition, that

The Roman Empire was one of the most well known empires in history. It was the most powerful of all of the empires and covered at least a part of over fifty present-day countries. It covered the most area out of all of the empires in history. Other than the Spartans, the Roman Empire had the most powerful army of the ancient world and contained over 20% of the world population back then. The Roman’s ingenuity created many inventions as well, such as the arch, which, with aqueducts, would revolutionize the transport of water and other supplies across the empire. The Roman Empire was the strongest in ancient times, and contained almost all of modern day Europe in its

Banking activities in Greece are more varied and sophisticated than in any previous society. Private entrepreneurs, as well as temples and public bodies, now undertake financial transactions. They take deposits, make loans, change money from one currency to another and test coins for weight and purity.

The Roman Republic’s origins began at approximately 509 BCE when two Roman aristocrats, Collatinus and Brutus, overthrew the Etruscan tyrant ruling over Rome. This act freed the Romans from Etruscan rule and established the sovereign Roman Republic, which prospered until 30 BCE where the Roman Republic would transition into the Roman Empire. During this expansive reign, the Roman Republic exhibited vast imperialism, evolving from the city of Rome with humble origins as a small village near the mouth of the Tiber River, to an eventual transcontinental empire, Romanizing the landscape of the Mediterranean world. Through a system of complex interactions, the imperial republic came to hold lands as far west as present day Spain and France,

a famine which severely depleted the population or when they lost Gaul (modern day France and Belgium), the stores of wine could not be refilled properly and led to a massive increase on prices for the luxurious resource. In the end, Rome’s lack of money prevented it from properly defending its borders from the barbarian hordes which threatened it throughout the centuries, but Rome didn’t only have massive financial instability, it also had terrible leadership.

The Romans were influential people. They were once, the power head of the world. Their value system included the belief in eclecticism, practicality, and imperialism. This evidence that the Romans made their worldview known throughout the world, including these three key values.