(Died AD 465) After the death of Majorian there followed a period of over three months where no successor was named for the throne of the western empire.Then on 19 November AD 461 Libius Severus was proclaimed emperor. Little is known about Libius Severus’ origins and career, other that he came from Lucania in the …
Gaius Gracchus(159-121 BC) After the violent death of Tiberius Gracchus, the Gracchus family wasn’t finished yet. Gaius Gracchus, a flamboyant and powerful public speaker, was to be a far more formidable political force than his brother. The legacy of Tiberius Gracchus, the agrarian law, was being applied in a manner which created a fresh grievance …
The Layout of a Roman Legion’s camp Below you find the layout of camp of a Roman army on the march. Every night the legion would halt and erect a camp in this layout. As every Roman force used the same scheme, this meant that every soldier always knew where to find everything. Also this …
Flavius Theodosius(AD 408- AD 450) Theodosius II was born in AD 401, the son of Arcadius and Aelia Eudoxia.Already in January AD 402 he was proclaimed co-Augustus by his father. When in AD 408 Arcadius died his son succeeded to the throne without any violence. With Theodosius II still an infant, the regency of Constantinople …
Few places in the world have been romanticised to longer lengths than a former fruit-growing region now known as Silicon Valley. The region, also known as Santa Clara Valley, was given its nickname by a 1971 Electronics Magazine article, owing to the large quantities of silicon being used to make semiconductor chips. For the better …
Voices of the MexicaStories about true human sacrifices of the aztec empire, the Aztec gods, and the people who worshiped them. and gods they served Asha SandsWritten April 2020 Upon seeing its vastness and pristine order, the first Europeans arriving to the Aztec Empire thought they were having an otherworldly in a glorious dream The …