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4 days ago · Roman citizenship was acquired by birth if both parents were Roman citizens (cives), although one of them, usually the mother, might be a peregrinus (“alien”) with connubium (the right to contract a Roman marriage). Otherwise, citizenship could be granted by.
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4 days ago · The Roman Republic became Roman Empire, a vast territory that included Alexander’s empire and Europe. Some of the emperors were responsible leaders, but most of the remaining emperors were ruthless and corrupt. One of them, Constantine, dumped Greco-Roman religion and culture for a messianic and semitic religion, Christianity.
4 days ago · Illyrians. Illyrian tribes in the 1st–2nd centuries AD. The Illyrians ( Ancient Greek: Ἰλλυριοί, Illyrioi; Latin: Illyrii) were a group of Indo-European-speaking people who inhabited the western Balkan Peninsula in ancient times. They constituted one of the three main Paleo-Balkan populations, along with the Thracians and Greeks .
5 days ago · Part 5: Caesar and Civil Wars. The three members of the Triumvirate soon became jealous of each other and fought for control of the government. The winner was Julius Caesar, who was such a champion of the people and of the army that he was made dictator for life by the Senate. Jealous of his popularity and afraid of his ambitions, a group of ...
21 hours ago · After joining the Roman Empire at the start of the first millennium, ... It is considered to be the birthplace of Western civilization, with enormous contributions to philosophy, politics ...
3 days ago · CL 223LEC - Roman Civilization Survey of Rome’s mythical beginnings to the time of the emperors that covers the full spectrum of Roman cultural expression. Topics covered are not only literature, painting, sculpture, and architecture but also details of everyday life in the Roman world, as well as the roles played by marginal figures (women ...
5 days ago · However, in longstanding Chinese traditional thought, the core of civilization is mainly the promotion and cultivation of humanistic spirit and virtue; it does not directly relate to material and political civilization. In other words, civilization should be comprehensive, including material, political and spiritual civilization.
