ANCIENT ROME

History from the fall of Ancient Rome to the 1600s



History from the fall of Ancient Rome to the 1600s

Introduction

The fall of the ancient Roman Empire has been a matter of scholarly debate for many centuries, with many a minor and a leading cause suggested. In fact, like any historical event, many factors, including religion, geography and power, played a role in the decline of an empire that for so long dominated the landscape of world history. No one expected that the Roman Empire could disappear from the maps of the ancient world (Matz , 2008). There seemed only a few in the conviction that such a huge state at the end, and so will be gained. Firstly, it should be noted that the Roman Empire extended over vast areas, which managed the difficult one ruler. It feared that if the State divided among several governors, some people decide to create their state with its own government and begin to compete with each other. This would lead to civil war, which erupted more than once: in the days of Julius Caesar and Octavian Augustus. However, the Empire so far remained under the rule of one ruler - it also was not a satisfactory solution. The emperor had controlled huge tracts of land. Before he learned about a rebellion, or planned, passed around parunastu days before a messenger arrived with the news (taking into account the fact that it happened in the vicinity of the Rhine, the Middle East or Spain) (Starr, 2001). There were also frequent rebellions that broke out due to high taxes or other problems besetting the citizens. Next thing we see in Rome dropped food and other products, impoverished state of constant warfare, suppression and sometimes remuneration rebels and the army itself, it was so destroyed that it was not such a problem on the battlefield as they used to. Despite the huge number of threats that could lead to the collapse of a solid state, its citizens not concerned with this possibility, after all Rome, there was almost a thousand years (Matz , 2008).

As we all know the problems in the Roman Empire began about the thirties of the third century AD the internal situation was dramatic, many senators killed in an unexpected way. The reason was clear, constituted a threat to individual groups of oligarchs and their objectives, which was exerting on the emperor tribulations in order to gain privileges or be the ruler himself. Other problems were growing more and more rebellions in Gaul, Spain and Africa. Many also were dissatisfied Roman citizens, who also stood against the governments in the state (Skinner, 2008)

The then emperor, who understood that a person does not cope with all the problems throughout the Roman Empire decided to divide into four parts, thereby creating tetrarch, the system of government in which power exercised in the empire of four men, controlling different geographical areas - Diocletian (eastern Mediterranean coast), Maksymian (Italia and Africa), Galerius (valley of the Danube and ...