Thomas Hodgkin, in The Medieval Record: Sources of Medieval History, ed.
This would put the Franks in sharp contrast with the Vandals, Visigoths, and Ostrogoths, all of whom were Arians.In none of these kingdoms, Visigothic, Ostrogothic, Frankish, or Vandal, did the Germanic peoples who ruled them seek to destroy Roman society—far from it. Roman Empire, the ancient empire, centered on the city of Rome, that was established in 27 BCE following the demise of the Roman Republic and continuing to the final eclipse of the Empire in the West in the 5th century CE.
The Roman Empire, at its height (c. 117 CE), was the most extensive political and social structure in western civilization.By 285 CE the empire had grown too vast to be ruled from the central government at Rome and so was divided by Emperor Diocletian (r. 284-305 CE) into a Western and an Eastern Empire. Cities shrank drastically, and in those regions of Gaul north of the Loire River, they nearly all vanished in a process that we call 1 Cassiodorus, Variae, trans. Regardless of which of the many myths one prefers, no one can doubt the impact of ancient Rome on western civilization. More importantly, he converted to the Catholic Christianity of his subjects in post-Roman Gaul. to 27 B.C.
It is interesting to note that prior to the Roman Empire, the kingdom of Macedonia became an empire too under Alexander the Great. You cannot download interactives. Regardless of which of the many myths one prefers, no one can doubt the impact of ancient Rome on western civilization. The Rights Holder for media is the person or group credited. In the same way that the Christian Church had endorsed the Roman Emperors since Constantine and, in return, these emperors supported the Church, the Frankish kings took up a similar relation with the Christian religion. Rather, they sought homelands and to live as the elites of the Roman Empire had done before them. Julius Caesar was a Roman general and politician who named himself dictator of the Roman Empire, a rule that lasted less than one year before he was famously assassinated by political rivals in 44 B.C.Some say the city of Rome was founded on the Palatine Hill by Romulus, son of Mars, the god of war. If no button appears, you cannot download or save the media.Text on this page is printable and can be used according to our Any interactives on this page can only be played while you are visiting our website. National Geographic HeadquartersNational Geographic Society is a 501 (c)(3) organization. Use these classroom resources to teach middle schoolers about the empire of ancient Rome.On March 15, 44 B.C.E., Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, was stabbed to death by dozens of senators.The Roman Republic describes the period in which the city-state of Rome existed as a republican government (from 509 B.C. National Geographic Society The Arch of Severus (center) was added during the imperial phase of Rome, an addition to a republican icon, the Roman Forum.Leading the republic were two consuls who were elected by legislative assemblies.