HUMAN 1AS Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pyrrhic Victory, Calgacus, Roman Kingdom
24 Jan 2018
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A notional geographical entity with flexible borders and a proclivity for expansion that places an extensive group of peoples and /or territories under a single supreme authority. Dead rulers gave their territories to roman empire. Refers to rome = city in middle of italy, originally a tiny city-state. Roman, can refer to roman empire, vast collection of territories that rome conquered and ruled. roman gradually becomes a broad legal political and cultural category (rather than a narrow geographical one) Process of romanization and grants of citizenship. Generous in granting citizenship to conquered people. Gradual induction of conquered elites into imperial power structures. Born in gaul (france) of mixed syrian and punic. 476 be, western part of the roman empire collapsed. Easter part, byzantium, called themselves romans even though the empire fell long ago. Characteristically generous treatment of defeated group, loosely incorporated into. All freedom you want, but give us soldiers. Characteristic determination: defeat never final; failure not an option.
