What I find soįascinating is that so much of the ancient architecture This piece of land into the Golden House, which covered 120 acres. Claudius was made a god after his death and Nero incorporated Middle of which is a temple, and that's the temple To our right we're passing by a great complex, a garden in the To our left the Palatine Hill, you see a plume of smoke going up from the imperial bath complex Now we're looking at the Caelian Hill, you can see the ClaudianĪqueduct in the valley between the Caelian hill and One of the great Bath complexes of ancient Rome. With the Arch of Titus, we can see in the distance There were temples, triumphal arches and other monuments. Maximus and all along the triumphal procession Triumphal arch of Titus here is that the parade knownĪs the triumphal procession went through the Circus To the Emperor Titus and celebrated his victory Imperial box and just to the left of the stadium is the palace. To the sun is placed directly across from the Thought this was appropriate for the Circus because the Circus itself had a temple of the sun god. It symbolized to the Egyptians,Īnd the Romans knew this, a sunbeam, and the Romans This is one of the first two very tall obelisksīrought from Egypt to Rome by the first Emperor Augustus. And there'sĪn island in the middle, around which the chariots would race. Races among other things, it also was used for parades, for example The Triumphal Parade. This is the Circus Maximus used for the chariot And now we'reĪpproaching a large stadium, a place for sporting events. The Theatre of Marcellus, and to the left is the Capitoline Hill. You see this big plaza, that's the so-called Circus Flaminius, beyond which is a theater, It's a beautiful day, and we're flying low over the Tiber River. Bernie Frischer, the creator of Rome Reborn. I find that the "Holy Roman Emperor" was really only the "Holy Roman Emperor" by name. The important point to remember is that it the Holy Roman Empire really isn't a continuation of the Roman Empire since it didn't maintain Roman culture or Roman institutions. For much of its later history in fact, the Holy Roman Empire didn't even include Rome or much of modern Italy. It didn't have a specified capital, but it was really centered in modern Germany instead of Rome. It had a rather complex history that I can't really go into here. By the time it fell, the Holy Roman Emperor had really been nothing more than a figurehead for over a century. Since 962 The Holy Roman Empire continued to exist until 1806. In 800 A.D, the Carolingian king Charlemagne, was crowned by Pope Leo III and it was declared that the Roman Empire had been revived as "the Holy Roman Empire." The Carolingian kingdom eventually fell apart, but the Holy Roman Empire continued when Otto I, who ruled the German Kingdom, was also crowned as "Holy Roman Emperor" in 962 A.D. The Carolingians were a dynasty that ruled the Franks, which were a group of people that lived mainly in modern day France. It was initially preceded by the Carolingian Empire, which ruled much of France and Germany. The Holy Roman Empire is really distinct from the actual Roman Empire that existed until 476. The Latin language also died out as a spoken language as early forms of French, Italian, and Spanish formed as spoken languages among commoners. During the Dark Ages many of the tribes that sacked Rome became Christianized as they formed their own kingdoms that replaced the Roman Empire. The fall of the Western Roman Empire marks the beginning of what's called the Dark Ages. Italy itself fragmented into city-states and the countries that eventually became France, Spain, and England began to take shape. It was overrun by numerous Germanic tribes that ended up creating new monarchies. The western Roman Empire had its own emperor separate from the Eastern Roman Empire and its primary language was Latin instead of Greek. Unlike the in the Roman Empire, Greek was the primary language in the Byzantine Empire. It didn't collapse until 1453, when it was defeated by the Ottoman Turks. The Byzantine Empire outlasted the rest of the Roman Empire by nearly 1000 years. When Constantine split the Roman Empire it had actually already been in a slow decline for nearly two hundred years, so even though Rome was at its peak in terms of urbanization, the Roman Empire wasn't as economically sound anymore and it had faced significant political instability. The capital of the eastern portion of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, became Constantinople, while the capital of the western Roman Empire remained Rome. The eastern half became the Byzantine Empire. Constantine believed that the Roman Empire had become too big and disorganized to be managed as one Empire.
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