Who Is Emperor Leo V Overthrew?

“ A man’s status is just the same as with rats. It simply depends on where one locates oneself!” (Dawson, 23). The Oxford world’s classic book, The First Emperor, is a famous writing about the first emperor’s legacy and how the empire continues after his death. Throughout this book we see a mass number of influential people. These same influential people all play a massive role in the development of the empire and even the change of the empire after the death of the first emperor. Sima Qian uses influences from lesser figures such as Lu Buwei, Li Si, and even Zhao Gao from this book to set up the motion that greater figures such as emperor Zichu and the Second Generation Emperor are completely reliant on lesser figures to achieve higher statuses

Constantine the ruler of the Roman Empire had been surrounded by many controversies during his reign (Cameron, 14). He was the son of a great warrior and he defeated Manutius a great ruler at Milia Bridge. He had gained much respect and admiration among the Romans as a fair ruler. He emerged as a ruler who supported Christianity and then became popular as a Christian ruler himself. His reign and victory over the Roman Empire is a significant event in the history of Christian religion. With the Edict of Milan in 313 Christianity was recognized as a religion, and the followers were free to practice Christianity without fear. It has been argued that Constantine failed to treat different religions equally as paganism (Cameron, 57). Constantine also sponsored churches, promoted Christians to high government ranks, exempted taxes for the clergy. In the latter days of his rule Constantine had a stricter approach towards Christianity and professed that there is one God, the Christian God. He rewarded building temples into churches. He played a key role in framing important church policies namely The Council of Arles, A.D. 314 and The Council of Nicaea, A.D. 325.

“The Last Emperor” was a very interesting film, rich in historical truth and an accurate portrayal of past events that occurred in China during the 1900s. The story was very easy to follow and gave a more modernized approach to teaching the impacts of historical proceedings by using the English language but not forgetting to keep the facts in order. This approach gave me the opportunity to see the different actors as if it were truly identical to what this time period was all about. Given that the plot was centralized around Puyi, the last Emperor of China, and the director did an excellent job making the movie fit the timeline.

Emperor Alexius I Comnenus asked Pope Urban II to help defend the Byzantine Empire in 1095 CE. The Pope agreed because he wanted to secure his own power over the church and called a military expedition to conquer the Holy Land.

Iconoclastic policies aimed to stop the use of icons or religious images to worship and glorify the God. There was two period in the history of Byzantine Empire when imperial and religious authorities opposed the use of icons or religious images. The first iconoclasm was in the beginning of 730, and the second one between 814 and 842. Images became the items of cult implying beliefs in their animations. Iconoclasts believed that use of icons was a violation of the Old Testament. They felt that by using images, there was a possibility of idolatry. As stated by a traditional view, Byzantine iconoclasm instituted an abolition of icons by Emperor Leo III and this abolition went on even under those who succeeded him (Spielvogel, 233). There was a widespread persecution of those who supported the worship of images and destruction of the icons.

Iconoclasm is the ban of religious images, statues and icons for religious or political motives. In Christianity, Iconoclasm was the result of a literal interpretation of the Ten Commandments, which suggests that worshipping holy figures, pictures or graved images is prohibited. The Byzantines saw two eras of iconoclasm, the first Iconoclast period was from 726 to 787 CE, when Leo III, the emperor of Byzantium at that time, ordered the removal of religious images of the Christ, Mary, and every single form of art representing the divinity in Christianity (fig 1). The second era of debating either the censorship or the advocacy of religious art was from 814 to 842

During rule of Emperor Justinian of the Eastern Roman Empire, a cycle of recurring plagues started in the year 541 A.D. This plague cycle would disappear and reappear in roughly eleven year cycles. The last strike of this plague cycle was in 747 in Naples. This series of plagues were called the Justinian plague named after Emperor Justinian’s rule and it is also referred to as the early medieval pandemic (EMP). The severity of this plague was high being that Procopius of Caesarea, a Urban Prefect of Constantinople stated that the plague “fell upon the whole world, yet just as many people escaped as had the misfortune to succumb- either because they escaped the infection altogether, or because they got over it if they happened to be

The development of christianity under the empire undoubtedly changed the relation between the political and spiritual spheres in following centuries. In fact, this transpires in how often emperors and empresses played dominant roles in the Eastern church after Constantine I's reign. In many

The clouds turned eerie and dark, as lightning struck beautifully, and the thunder roared loudly in the sky, welcoming the new king of the Lionheart Kingdom, King Leo XVI. Leo was a fortunate and young cub born in the wealthy side of the kingdom. He was chosen to be the king because his grandfather, Leo XIV had died. Leo was still a young cub, and he still had so much to discover about the world around him. He was not the typical lion who was brave, courageous, and audacious; he was more of a lazy, indolent, and an indecisive lion. As soon as he became king he moved into a paradisal and heavenly palace called Leon, where everything is what any poor animal could ever dreamed of. And what is a king without a queen? Leo decided

The Iconoclastic Controversy was a dispute over religious images and artifacts in the 8th and 9th centuries. The Iconoclasts challenged icon worshiping which included the possibility of worshipping and in the Old Testament’s prohibition against religious images in the Ten Commandments. The iconoclasts claimed that images of religious figures such as Jesus, Saints, and the Virgin Mary were a parody of true worship and were associated to idol worship ("Iconoclastic Controversy | Byzantine History."). After all of this, they set out to destroy all images, which lead to the church banning religious images within the practice of worship, ritual, or sacrament for the next century. The icon worshippers insisted on the natural symbolism it created for the images as well as the poise created for the object.

The conversion of Roman Emperor, Constantine, marked the start of a reform that would change Rome forever. A once pagan society, Rome was one of the last to grasp the Christianity concept. The start of “Christianizing” Rome began with two of Jesus’ disciples, Peter and James, as well as the apostle Paul in the Roman province of Antioch during the first century ("New Women of Color Study Bible" 1742). From this, Christianity spread all over the province, by the time it got to Rome it was not widely practiced. It wasn’t until the reign of Constantine that Christianity took its place as the empires forefront religion. Since Rome was known for its worship and idolizing of gods, how and for what reasons did Constantine transform his subjects’ beliefs? According to authors, Ramsay MacMullen, John Curran, and A.H.M. Jones, a number of tactics were used to sway the masses’ minds. Use of coercion, money, and campaigns aided Constantine’s questionable Christian “cleanse”.

Byzantine Emperor Justinian was the bold architect of a revitalized Byzantine Empire that would leave a lasting legacy for Western Civilization. As much of Europe entered the Dark Ages, Justinian 's vision of a restored Roman Empire would reverse the decline of the Byzantine Empire and lay a firm foundation that would allow the Byzantine Empire to survive for centuries to come.

In February 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued the Executive Order 9066 to allow the internment of more than one hundred thousands people of Japanese heritage living on the west coast of the United States. In the midst of World War II, F.D.R. instituted this order following popular opinion and poor advice from his cabinet. This dismal decision was made in the wake of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, as Anti-Japanese paranoia was increasing. This terrible event left a scar on the rather spotless-at least to the public eye- profile of the United States. There were many factors that led to this rather severe course of action. Unfortunately, history has the tendency to repeat itself and the current political climate predicts such harsh precautions to be reproduced. Internment has a chance to reappear once more considering the current political climate especially around Muslims and Terrorism against the U.S.

Nerō Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus born 15 December 37 AD ,died 9 June 68 AD. He was a Roman emperor from 54 to 68 the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty. He took the role of emperor after the death of Claudius. He was successful in war and made peace with the Parthian Empire. However unlike Hitler ,Nero was frowned upon by the people. The people believed he was responsible for the Great Fire of Rome in order to clear land for his complex. Nero enjoyed parading through the streets ,a trait similar to Hitler. Nero sang in public to build his popularity, it is believed Nero was desperate for attention. Nero also enjoyed shows to the point he had these shows put on in his backyard. These shows are not what one might expect, Nero watched

In 28AD, when Julia was 13 years old, she was betrothed to Domitius Ahenobarbus and later married him. Her marriage was arranged by Tiberius who was the Emperor of Rome and head of the imperial household at the time. In December, 37AD, Julia gave birth to her first son who was to be the future Emperor. Her son's name was Nero. Tiberius died later in the same year Nero was born and Julia’s brother Claudius took to the throne. In 39AD, Julia, Livilla, and their cousin were involved in a plot to murder Caligula and make Lepidus, Drusilla's widower, the new Emperor but the there plot did not work resulting in failure. Caligula had Lepidus executed as he did not want him as a threat and later made sure that Julia and Livilla were exiled to Pandateria which is now a part of the Pontine Islands. In 41AD,