Empires

The Byzantine Empire was the successor of the Roman Empire during the time period of Late Antiquity and the Medieval Ages. The Byzantine Empire was also called Eastern Roman Empire, so this proves that it was a continuation of the Roman Empire, but they were speaking Greek, and did not forget about the Greek tradition. According to Browning, the physicians during the Byzantine Empire like Oreibasios, who was “the Emperor Julian’s physician and friend”, use the scientific and old version of Greek

The Ottoman Empire was one of the longest enduring empires. In 1299 ce, the earliest Ottoman state was recorded in the western part of Anatolia, Turkey. The key goal at the time of creation was to expand the empire as soon as possible.The Ottoman empire, also known as a Turkish Empire was founded by Osman the first. In the beginning stages of Ottoman expansion, leaders of the group were Turkish warriors for Islamic faith. After maintaining control of the small northwest area of Turkey, other areas

EMPIRE OF THE MOGHUL: RULER OF THE WORLD - BY ALEX RUTHERFORD Ruler of the World is a fictionalised novel on the third great Mughal Emperor Akbar. This is the third part (out of five) of “Empire of the Mughal” series by Alex Rutherford. The author’s pen name is Diana Preston from London. This book is a continuation of the second part i.e. Humayun’s history . The book chronicles

The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires all contributed to create what is known as the Age of Gunpowder Empires between 1450-1800 (Islamic Empires). Although these empires were thought to be extremely different, the vast amount of similarities within their actions and methods proved to be almost identical. These empires focused their power on military and used new technological advances with firearms; this included the cannon and small arms. The Empires even took it upon themselves to develop a

The Roman Empire was a time when the government was ruled by emperors and there were boarders around that distinguished which land belong to the Romans and which did not. It encompassed the coastland and people of three continents: Africa, Asia and Europe. Many like to remember it was “the last and greatest of the Hellenistic empires, with all of the cultural variety that the term connotes” (Andrea & Overfield, 2014, p. 300). Because of the characterization of “The Fall of the Roman Empire” many have

Roman Empire and the reasons for the fall, including looking at the reasons for the split in the Empire in c. 312- 395 CE and how the eastern half managed to survive for so much longer before finally falling. I am interested in these areas as before when learning about the Roman Empire we never cover that it had broken in two and I was also interested to learn that the Byzantine Empire was what remained of the Roman Empire, we also never explored how the empire ended, just that the Empire fell and

The Roman Empire versus the Greek Empire Introduction The Greece and the Roman empires are considered to be amongst the most powerful empires in history as their impact is still felt some 2000 years after they were conquered. The Greece Empire is said to have lasted for approximately 350 years while the Roman Empire is said to have lasted for between 500 and 1500 years based on how one interprets the rule of the Romans (Ahbel-Rappe 530). Over time, there has been a debate on which of the two empires

The Roman Empire was once an empire that nobody could contend with once they had taken out the Carthaginians. It was a place of virtue, art, culture, and money. There was nobody better than Rome in the world. But eventually they were doing nothing at all, they weren’t conquering, culture wasn’t thriving, virtues were lost, politics were unstable, and the empire was split into two: the Western and Eastern Roman Empire. The Western Roman Empire suffered the biggest part of this blow before eventually

thesis- The Mauryan and Gupta Empire suffered through heinous social values because of the rules implemented on by their government. The effect culture had on these similar civilizations was the established human interaction that derived from trade. Because of the social impact that trading had on people of the mauryan and gupta empire, their culture in terms of agriculture, art, and traditions were very assorted because of the diversity that resulted from it. One differece Both founded by men

The Structure of the Roman Empire The Roman Empire is regarded as one of the largest, if not the largest, civilization ever recorded in history. In 45BC, Julius Caesar took over as the first dictator of Rome after he defeated Pompey in a civil war which marked the end of the Roman Republic. In the quest to bring back the republic, Julius Caesar was assassinated By Brutus in 44BC. This however did not bring back the republic but lead to another civil war. Augustus Caesar took over in 27BC as the first