Good summary Cover this every semester. What is more interesting is how Diolceltian comes in at the end. His reforms both helped Rome and set it up for its eventual "fall" in the west. I just made a short video on him
If there is an equivalent period in history, I might suggest the whole of Europe in the 19th century. The entire continent seemed to recapitulate the overlapping manifests of Greece and Rome, which from about 550 BCE to 450 CE were assembled by the Hellenic colonization and diaspora, the Macedonian Occupations, the Italic peninsula consolidation, the Roman Republic and eventually an immense, acquisitive Roman Empire. European powers refigured that Greco-Roman spectacle beginning with the Renaissance and Age of Discovery, but were already mired in crises by the 18th-century, which began the decline from the apical culmination of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Belgian and Austro-Hungarian Empires, most of which had been expanding feverishly for 300 years. Toward the end of the 18th century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was partitioned into oblivion, the British lost much of North America, slavery and autocracy were under condemnation and France had decimated itself. Throughout the 19th century, slavery was abolished in fits and starts, the revolutions of Latin America further discouraged France, Spain and Portugal, which were then preoccupied by the Napoleonic Wars, and by 1920 every empire based in Europe had its domestic boundaries redrawn and its final holdings in Asia and Africa agitating for independence. By the 1960s, the colonies of Europe had fully humbled their imperium, which regrouped itself first as a trade and military polity through Eurail, the World Bank, the IMF & NATO, then as a political integrity under the European Union. This represented a fuller realization of Kant's "Perpetual Peace" than did the establishment of the United Nations after World War II, although I think both are incredible advances beyond the barbarism of imperial subjugation and endless wars. So Europe, if considered as an idealized conglomeration of Greco-Italic peoples, repeated much of Athenian/Roman history--by brutalizing far-flung provinces for resource extraction and political hegemony under a Christian "civilizing mission," then pacifying them through the benefits of advanced technology, linguistic and monetary assimilation, and promises of security--and it worked until it didn't. But both GrecoRoman Antiquity and European Imperialism set the frame, tone and goal of world culture for a millennia and half a millennia, respectively. The only comparable imperial legacy might be the spread of Islam and the Arabic language and culture along with it. It endured more persuasively than the violent incursions and expansions by the Phoenicians, Huns, Germanic tribes, the Norse, Mongols and Ottomans. But I think the many deep differences might outweigh the glancing parallels. More knowledgeable people should expand on that. Now about Russia, China and America . . . will they learn from the past? They don't seem like the most diligent students of history!
Interesting. I'd always thought that the breakaway empires were the cause of the crisis, but it sounds like they were actually the result of the economic and military issues causes by bad imperial policies.
Very interesting and you covered a lot of material quickly and effectively. I know you’re limited with time, but I was surprised that, while you spoke positively about Diocletian’s reforms, nothing was said about the Diocletianic Persecution (303-312), which was the empire's last, largest, and bloodiest official persecution of Christianity, which also failed to eliminate Christianity in the empire. After 324, Christianity became the empire's preferred religion under Constantine.
I enjoy history very much, and was an archaeologist. However, this woman’s presentations irritate me so much that I cannot watch them. This has nothing to do with contact only with presentation. I know she is trying to do her best job, and I appreciate that. Sadly I am not a fan.
Can you think of similar periods throughout world history?
How about now?? Look whats happening now, What a World..
Good summary
Cover this every semester. What is more interesting is how Diolceltian comes in at the end. His reforms both helped Rome and set it up for its eventual "fall" in the west. I just made a short video on him
Very interesting I just love history any history
If there is an equivalent period in history, I might suggest the whole of Europe in the 19th century. The entire continent seemed to recapitulate the overlapping manifests of Greece and Rome, which from about 550 BCE to 450 CE were assembled by the Hellenic colonization and diaspora, the Macedonian Occupations, the Italic peninsula consolidation, the Roman Republic and eventually an immense, acquisitive Roman Empire.
European powers refigured that Greco-Roman spectacle beginning with the Renaissance and Age of Discovery, but were already mired in crises by the 18th-century, which began the decline from the apical culmination of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, Belgian and Austro-Hungarian Empires, most of which had been expanding feverishly for 300 years. Toward the end of the 18th century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was partitioned into oblivion, the British lost much of North America, slavery and autocracy were under condemnation and France had decimated itself. Throughout the 19th century, slavery was abolished in fits and starts, the revolutions of Latin America further discouraged France, Spain and Portugal, which were then preoccupied by the Napoleonic Wars, and by 1920 every empire based in Europe had its domestic boundaries redrawn and its final holdings in Asia and Africa agitating for independence. By the 1960s, the colonies of Europe had fully humbled their imperium, which regrouped itself first as a trade and military polity through Eurail, the World Bank, the IMF & NATO, then as a political integrity under the European Union. This represented a fuller realization of Kant's "Perpetual Peace" than did the establishment of the United Nations after World War II, although I think both are incredible advances beyond the barbarism of imperial subjugation and endless wars.
So Europe, if considered as an idealized conglomeration of Greco-Italic peoples, repeated much of Athenian/Roman history--by brutalizing far-flung provinces for resource extraction and political hegemony under a Christian "civilizing mission," then pacifying them through the benefits of advanced technology, linguistic and monetary assimilation, and promises of security--and it worked until it didn't.
But both GrecoRoman Antiquity and European Imperialism set the frame, tone and goal of world culture for a millennia and half a millennia, respectively. The only comparable imperial legacy might be the spread of Islam and the Arabic language and culture along with it. It endured more persuasively than the violent incursions and expansions by the Phoenicians, Huns, Germanic tribes, the Norse, Mongols and Ottomans. But I think the many deep differences might outweigh the glancing parallels. More knowledgeable people should expand on that.
Now about Russia, China and America . . . will they learn from the past? They don't seem like the most diligent students of history!
Informative as always.
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Interesting. I'd always thought that the breakaway empires were the cause of the crisis, but it sounds like they were actually the result of the economic and military issues causes by bad imperial policies.
There were definitely a combination of factors, but yes, bad Imperial policies played a big part. Thanks for watching!
Very interesting and you covered a lot of material quickly and effectively. I know you’re limited with time, but I was surprised that, while you spoke positively about Diocletian’s reforms, nothing was said about the Diocletianic Persecution (303-312), which was the empire's last, largest, and bloodiest official persecution of Christianity, which also failed to eliminate Christianity in the empire. After 324, Christianity became the empire's preferred religion under Constantine.
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I enjoy history very much, and was an archaeologist. However, this woman’s presentations irritate me so much that I cannot watch them. This has nothing to do with contact only with presentation. I know she is trying to do her best job, and I appreciate that. Sadly I am not a fan.
Yeah, you are right, irritation could be due to her pretention of curiousity.