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hospitality of the Germanics, and how they gave him “a luxurious meal” not only does he say their hospitality his superb but he talks about their clothing and how it is “only to be clean”(Priscus). Priscus was an ambassador of the Roman Empire and Attila treats him with respect in order to have favorable recognition by the Emperor. In order to do so he conveys an exceedingly ceremonial dinner for the ambassador, and treats him with the maximum level of

The Pax Romana was a two hundred year time period where the Romans had peace and prosperity under Augustus. The Roman empire started to decline at the end of the prevail of the last five emperors, Marcus Aurelius in 161-180 A.D. The rulers in the next century had no idea how to deal with the problems the empire was having. There was many reasons to the fall of the Roman Empire but three stood out the most. The preliminary reason was the economy begins to decline. The alternative reasoning was Rome

For almost 15 centuries, Rome was one of the largest Empires in the world. They expanded from the Atlantic Ocean to the Euphrates River located in the Middle East. At the time the Romans were winning wars left and right which got them a considerable amount of land. At one point they had so much land, Emperor Diocletian had to split the Empire because it was no longer practical to govern the whole Empire just from Rome. Many of my fellow historians have been making many theories of how the Roman Empire

Most of what we know of Genevieve comes from her hagiography. Although this is resourceful, it leaves us with limited historical documentation beyond the miracles and saintly duties she performed. What we do know is that Genevieve was born during or shortly after the year 420 in Nanterre, which is near Paris. Her parents, Severus (of Frankish origins) and Gerontia (of Germanic-Roman origins) were both peasants within the community. When Saint Germanus traveled through Nanterre on his way to Britain

The Fall of the Roman Empire • Emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned A.D. 161-180) – the end of his reign caused a loss of peace and prosperity: the Pax Romana • Tribes outside boundaries and pirates in the Mediterranean disrupted trade • Had no new sources of silver and gold and as a result the government raised taxes • Government starts minting coins with less silver and made more money with the same amount of metals which caused inflation- a drastic drop in the value of money coupled with a rise

“A person’s a person, no matter how small” (136). The ethics of abortion has been argued emotionally for many years. In The Unaborted Socrates (Inter Varsity Press: Downers Grove, IL, 1983), Peter Kreeft approaches this important debate using fictional characters and a logic based argument. Socrates, the great ethical philosopher who lived in Athens, Greece in about 400 BC, returns in the present day (then 1983) to challenge the pro-Choice position of an abortion doctor, an ethicist and a psychologist

Romulus Augustus Romulus was a well-known emperor who ruled from October 31st, 475 until September 4th, 476. He was born in 460 AD and died in 527 AD. His father was Orestes who once had been an assistant to Attila the Hun. The future Emperor was named Romulus after his maternal grandfather, a nobleman. During his time, he was the target of much mockery for some of his decisions. Romulus was the last emperor of Rome. He was one of the youngest emperors to ever reign. Romulus Augustus took the

The frescos that he painted in the Vatican’s “Room of the Signatura” were called The Triumph of Religion and The School of Athens. The Expulsion of Heliodorus, The Miracle of Bolsena, The Repulse of Attila from Rome, and The Liberation of Saint Peter were all frescos painted in a different room in the Vatican, the Stanza da Eliodoro (“Room of Heliodorus”). Raphael had also created some Madonna paintings, Madonna of the Chair and Sistine Madonna being

in temporal affairs as well. The Church had already demonstrated its ability to exert spiritual authority over the ruling class, but this opened the door for more diplomatic controls. When Rome was threatened by Attila the Hun, it was Pope Leo the Great who is credited with persuading Attila to turn back short of Rome. Whatever the truth of his role was, Leo had set a precedent for the broader role of the papacy in secular dealings.

empire of Khwarazm, another wave which included Russia and Eastern Europe, and a third wave of The Middle East. At their peak, the Mongols had conquered 4,860,000 square miles of land, making them larger than what Napoleon Bonaparte, Adolf Hitler, Attila, and Cyrus the Great had conquered combined. Were the Mongols really as barbaric as they sounded or was it all just rumors? The Mongols were a barbaric empire that would do whatever it took to succeed. The Mongols were an extremely barbaric empire