Surprisingly, Roman society did not seem to be affected by such a catastrophe, and Roman Empire did not fall until 400 years after Pompeii's destruction. ... He built The Arch of Titus to show Romans that Rome was favored by the gods. ... When people feel anxious or afraid of something, they were less likely to spend money on entertaining or enjoying, and more severely, turmoil would be likely to fall across the empire. ... The greatest port of Rome at that time was called "Portus Julius", home for western Imperial Fleet of ancient Rome, was located in Baiae, one of the most p...

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Why did Rome fall? ... For argument's sake, couldn't Rome's demise have been attributable to the simple fact that nothing lasts forever (including empires!) ... If one did not know that Rome collapsed, would we be able to make predictive claims based solely on any of the aforementioned circumstances? Hindsight is 20/20; concepts like "the Fall of Rome" or "The Renaissance" were never perceived to exist at the beginning of the period/process -- they were only recognized and articulated (and capitalized) after the fact. ...

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The answer, of course, would be the Middle Ages, which spanned from the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 to the exploration of the New World in the 1500's (Hartman 15). ... The transformation of life from urbanized Rome to the farming communities that trademarked medieval life did not occur instantly (Corbishley 14). For centuries, Rome had lived in fear of invasion from the numerous barbaric tribes that wanted land (Corbishley 15). ... The urban lifestyle of trade, education, and intellect from Rome had been long forgotten (Hartman 95). ... The feudal system that developed through tru...

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It would also shine the light upon both their similarities and their differences, but also this paper would incorporate the thoughts of Tacitus regarding Rome and its various political aspects as well as the Germanics. ... The government believed that it could silence the voice of Rome and overpower the freedom of the Senate and men's knowledge of the truth (Tacitus, Agricola Ch. 2). ... However Domitian was not the only one Tacitus was displease with; he went on taking a jab at Rome founder and father Caesar. ... Hunt gives the example of the Byzantine tribe who carried a strong hold o...

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With the fall of Rome marking the end of the slave society, agricultural communities emerged. ... Finally, the proletariat oppression would cause discontent and uprisings, finally causing the downfall of the system, the fall of the New Rome. ...

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He blamed the sack of Rome on the beliefs on the Roman people. ... Book I is a list and an explanation on why Rome fell to the Goths: how the belief in many gods, blame of the Christians for the sack of Rome, and honorable suicide are some of the many reasons he attributes the fall of the Rome on the early Romans. ...

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As time passed this artistic movement spread across Italy to Venice and Rome, and by the Sixteenth century the rest of Europe. ... Here Botticelli passionately tries to recapture the former glory of Rome, because the classical myths had become popular among educated laymen. ... Simply as a side note: Venus was conceived when the Titan Cronus castrated his father, the god Uranus, the severed genitals falling into the sea and fertilizing it. ...

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Its headquarters is in the United States, in New York City, but there are branches of the U.N. in Paris, in Rome and in Geneva. ... After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the organization became drawn into the breakup of Yugoslavia, and conducted their first military interventions in Bosnia from 1992 to 1995 and later Yugoslavia in 1999. ...

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Cecchetti was born in the Tordinona Theatre dressing room in Rome, Italy. ... "He holds the weight high and low, he overcomes and he gives in to gravity, he accesses different dynamic qualities through relaxation, falling and dropping, contrasted with the more familiar qualities of balance and muscular resistance to the downward pull of gravity" (Hammond 27). ...

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Through her seeking of divine guidance she was able to tour Europe and take pilgrimages to far away countries, such as Rome, Jerusalem, and Germany; another remarkable feat for a woman in medieval society (2001). ... Near the end of "The Book of Margery Kempe," when her husband is aging, he has a terrible fall causing him to become handicapped. ...

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Over the course of his life Serra delegated several other commissions to Guercino and was known as a notable art collector in Rome. ... Samson looks towards the approaching group of Philistines, alone, and all of the soldiers seem to fall as they converge. ...

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Instead, fascism seems to be a condition that states let themselves fall into, and then upon which they fervently cling. ... Mussolini capitalized on the uninspired leadership, weak government and economic chaos that fell on Italy during this time to glorify authoritarian and military virtues, and he successfully took power on his October 28th, 1922 "March on Rome" (RoSo, 2002). ...

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But in North America the Teutonic element, which has kept its racial stock pure and did not mix it with any other racial stock, has come to dominate the American Continent and will remain master of it as long as that element does not fall a victim to the habit of adulterating its blood. ... Also, after the Spanish Civil War, Germany and Italy closed an alliance treaty in 1938 called the Rome-Berlin Axis. ...

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Since its formation in small scattered civilizations, through its manifestations in ancient Greece and Rome, all the way to the current faces of democratic society around the world today, the system has been refining its boundaries and the premises on which it was built. ... This education also empowers the people and stabilizes the democracy making it less likely to collapse or fall prey to the power of a dictatorship as the result of a single group gaining too much power. ...

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It was by the fall of 1937 that Mussolini had visited Germany, and in spite of several nagging doubts, had nearly made of his mind to address the issue of formalizing the pact between Germany and Italy. ... He marched into Austria in March of 1938, warning Rome at the last possible moment. ...

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The ground rules of the European Union are set out in a series of treaties: • the Treaty of Paris, which set up the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951; • the Treaties of Rome, which set up the European Economic Community (EEC) and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) in 1957. ... The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 had a dramatic effect on the political shape of Europe. ...

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It appears that the Church of Rome, which governed the Monastery in commendam, wished to exercise direct supervision also through the dispatch of regular clergy there as its representatives. ... After a hard-fought campaign lasting a whole year, the capture of the unfortunate island was completed with the fall of Famagusta in August 1571, within a ghastly context of massacres, pillage, rapine and destruction, The dark period of Ottoman rule had begun for Cyprus. ...

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However, those engaged in non-luxury crafts in cities involved in long-distance trade might fall foul of merchant-entrepreneurs. ... For instance Rome had doubled its size by 1600, as successive Popes rebuilt the city as a counter reformation pilgrimage centre. ...

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