HUMAN-111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mérida, Spain, Euric, Germanic Languages

• School: Diablo Valley College
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMAN-111
• Professor: Halm

Document Summary

All of these places end up speaking latin based languages. Culture comes from the barbarians backgrounds more so then romans - britain is the only area that speaks a germanic language, likely because of the relatively thin layer of romans in britain. Bridge at merida, spain repaired in the later 5th century by king euric the visigoth, in cooperation with the local roman bishop of m rida the bridge still exists today. Polytheism (paganism: someone who lives in the countryside, who believed all sorts of stupid things) People in charge at this time believed in many gods, picking up new gods is not a problem, very tolerant and inclusive. Roman religion had become an integral part of imperial rule, emperors took on god-like qualities, especially after death. You cannot challenge an emperor (like or was a god) Religion in the roman empire around the birth of christ.