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	The Crisis of the Third Century
		No emperor could be secure on the throne, and during the 50-year period from A.D. 235 to 284 there were approximately 35 emperors, of whom only one died a natural death.
		The economy of the Roman state was probably never particularly healthy from a modern point of view and a general collapse took place during the third century.
		The third century witnessed a tremendous inflation and the currency collapsed; the empire nearly reverted to a "natural economy" (based on barter, with no coinage used).
	isthmia.osu.edu /teg/50501/4.htm (543 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The concept of the Roman Empire was renewed in the West with the coronation of the king of the Franks, Charlemagne, as Roman emperor by the Pope on Christmas Day, 800.
		This line of Roman emperors was actually generally German rather than Roman, but maintained their Roman-ness as a matter of principle; it lasted until 1806 when Francis II dissolved the Empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
		He was the last Emperor to rule over a united empire; the distribution of the East to his son Arcadius and the West to his son Honorius after his death in 395 represented a permanent division.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Roman_Emperor (3825 words)

	April 11: Third-century Crisis
		In the mid-3rd century, the Persians reconquered Dura-Europos, invaded the eastern Roman empire, and captured the emperor Valerian.
		Two third-century emperors - Gallienus and Aurelian created mobile armies with large components of elite cavalry units, and by the end of the 3rd century the commander of the imperial cavalry was one of the most powerful men in the empire.
		The third century crisis was next logical stage of a process we have talked about quite a bit - the entry of provincials into Roman public life.
	www.luc.edu /faculty/ldossey/thirdcenturycrisis.htm (2235 words)

	Family Ancestry Romans Crisis Third Century
		The Crisis of the Third Century is the event in ancient Rome, which led to the collapse of the Principate.
		The nomination of Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus to the status of Emperor was the beginning of this crisis.
		Philip the Arab was the first Roman emperor in history to be killed in battle, and this was a result of a battle he had with the Goths.
	www.family-ancestry.co.uk /history/romans/crisis_third_century (427 words)

	Rome and Romania, Roman Emperors, Byzantine Emperors, etc.
		If the decadence of pagan religion and despotic emperors was going to be the cause of the "fall" of Rome, then it certainly should have fallen in the Crisis of the Third Century.
		Decius and Herennius were killed in battle by the Goths in 251 -- the only Roman Emperors to die in battle (against external enemies) besides Julian (against the Persians, 363), Valens (against the Goths again, 378), Nicephorus I (against the Bulgars, 811), and Constantine XI (with the fall of Constantinople to the Turks, 1453).
		As the traditional units, largely familiar from the 5th Century, fell back from the collapsing frontiers, they were settled on the land in Anatolia, to be paid directly from local revenues instead of from the Treasury, whose tax base from Syria and Egypt had disappeared.
	www.friesian.com /romania.htm (14286 words)

	The Roman Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Emperor Diocletian was largely responsible for the reforms of the army which followed the tumultuous third century.
		The emperor Leo VI pointed out that the men chosen for the cavalry should be robust, courageous and should possess sufficient means to be free from care for their homes and possessions in their absence.
		Roman society was governed by class and so in effect there was three separate army careers possible, that of the common soldier in the ranks, that of the equestrians and that for those destined for command, the senatorial class.
	www.roman-empire.net /army/army.html (13507 words)

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		When the Roman emperor Adrian visited Palmyra, he declared her a "free city"; in return, the prople of Tadmor gratefully called their city "Adrianapalmyra".
		The Emperor Caracalla declared her a Roman colony, something the Palmyrians had always hoped for, since it exempted them from paying taxes on luxury items such as perfumes, spices, ivory, glass and silk.
		She took the title of "August", which was only used by the emperor of Rome, and she has money coined with her and her son's likeness upon it, without that of the emperor of Rome.
	www.syriangate.com /syria/homs.htm (1025 words)

	Waiting for the barbarians \| The Guardian \| Guardian Unlimited
		The third century saw even greater increases in the size of the army and the government bureaucracy, followed by further debasement of the coinage and enormous inflation.
		By the third century, if not before, there was an attitude among many Christians that education was not relevant to salvation, and that ignorance had a positive spiritual value (an early version of Forrest Gump, one might say).
		The third century saw a sharp increase in mysticism and a belief in knowledge by revelation.
	www.guardian.co.uk /saturday_review/story/0,3605,564084,00.html (1657 words)

	BBC - History - Third Century Crisis of the Roman Empire
		Contemporaries who lived through the third century upheavals looked back on the previous age as one of peace and prosperity, but in reality it could be said that Rome had lurched from crisis to crisis ever since its foundation in 753 BC.
		The trouble was that in the third century many problems surfaced at the same time, some of them on a grander scale than ever before, and they proved more difficult to eradicate.
		Two of the most serious threats to the empire in the third century were the developments taking place among the tribes of the northern frontiers beyond the Rhine and Danube, and the growth of a formidable centralising power in the east.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/ancient/romans/thirdcenturycrisis_article_01.shtml (268 words)

	HWC, The Roman Empire
		There were a couple of decent emperors in that bunch, but mostly their reigns were brief and violent.
		New emperors traditionally gave donatives to troops and citizens; with so many emperors in so short a time, the temptation was to devalue the currency to meet urgent needs, and several succumbed to that temptation.
		As long as choosing an emperor was essentially a matter of victory on the battlefield, the problems of the Empire could never properly be addressed.
	history.boisestate.edu /westciv/empire/15.shtml (454 words)

	ACTA ACCLA - Crisis Of The Third Century by Hugh Kramer
		ACTA ACCLA - Crisis Of The Third Century by Hugh Kramer
		Looking at the chart again, you can see that under the emperor Trajan (98-117 CE) who’s wars, successful as they were, did not bring in enough booty to offset their expense, the gold and silver coins again had their weights lowered and the debasement of the latter grew to 15%.
		Under the emperor Marcus Aurelius (161-180 CE), the empire simultaneously faced multiple wars on different fronts and a plague that probably killed off as large a percentage of the population as the Black Death did in the Middle Ages.
	www.accla.org /actaaccla/kramer.html (3583 words)

	Constantine – Pagan Thug Makes Christian Emperor
		(The Oration in Praise of Emperor Constantine, 3)
		During the crisis decades of the 3rd century many provincial Romans in the west had been carried off into slavery by Germanic raiders and their cities burned.
		In the embattled years of the late third century the fortunes of the city of Rome began a downspin, even as Christianity’s star was rising.
	www.jesusneverexisted.com /Constantine.htm (4515 words)

	The 2nd & 3rd Centuries: An Era of Trial & Opposition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the third century, the south of Spain was home to a large Christian community in Cordoba and the city of Elvira.
		It was not until Augustine in the 4th century that the Church was to begin its abandonment of the pacifism preached by Jesus and practised by his followers for three centuries.
		Already in the second and third centuries the Church had to learn that the proclamation of the message of Jesus would be met with controversy and rejection from within and without.
	dlibrary.acu.edu.au /staffhome/yukoszarycz/ecc/MOD2.HTML (4011 words)

	Greece Internal Division in the Third Century - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current ...
		A combination of internal turmoil and the threat of invasion by various nomadic tribes to the north and east led to a crisis in the third century.
		The chaos of the third century raised deep social and economic problems throughout the empire.
		Constantine became emperor of Rome in A.D. He built on the foundations laid by his predecessor, Diocletian, and consolidated the empire after a chaotic third century in which the average reign of a Roman emperor was less than five years.
	workmall.com /wfb2001/greece/greece_history_internal_division_in_the_third_century.html (415 words)

	EefyWiki - 13c: Crisis of the Third Century AD
		The telltale sign of this crisis was the thirty-odd emperors (and some were odd indeed) who claimed the title imperator in the half century before the emperor Diocletian restored order for good.
		The very richest Romans in the cities dodged their share of the burden by purchasing tax exemptions, which helped the government in the short run but were disastrous in the long run.
		This crisis of the Third Century AD was a bigger gut check for Rome than Hannibal had ever caused.
	eefy.editme.com /L13c (1146 words)

	Course Descriptions // Department of Classics // University of Notre Dame
		The development of Plato's philosophical ideas in their historical context is a key theme for discussion in the course, and attention is paid to the main features of his prose style in selections of his works.
		Roman Art of the Republic and the Empire is one focus of this course, but other early cultures of the Italian peninsula and their rich artistic production are also considered.
		Special attention is given to the preoccupations of the Greeks and Romans with the categories of 'female' and 'male' and to the dynamics of relations and relationships between women and men.
	classics.nd.edu /courses (5602 words)

	First Europe Tutorial - Roman Territorial Expansion
		Roman Domination of the Mediterranean 86 B.C.E. Rome's success in its territorial expansion can be credited to its military superiority and to its policy of absorbing conquered peoples.
		During the last century of the Republic, Roman generals won victories in northern Africa and in southern France, where upon a Roman colony was settled in Narbonne and a road built to link Italy with Spain.
		As the century progressed, the northern frontier was seriously weakened as it fell victim to the increasingly heavy migration of German tribes from northern Europe.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/firsteuro/roman.html (1314 words)

	Roman Empire In Decline: Third Century Civil War, Invasion, and the Economic Problems of Rome
		Three simultaneous crises contributed to this period becoming known as 'The Crisis of the Third Century' and the beginning of the end for The Roman Empire.
		Historians now suggest that the Germanic tribes were incorporated into the Roman Empire for reasons of defense, since the government did not have the ability to administer the large empire.
		ACCLA - Hugh Kramer - The Crisis of the Third Century
	roman-history.suite101.com /article.cfm/rome (487 words)

	Ancient Rome - History
		The Romans - citizens of ancient Rome, would look to their empire as the instrument that brought law and justice to the rest of the world; in some sense, the relative peace and stability they brought to the world did support this view.
		An immensely practical people, the Romans devoted much of their brilliance to military strategy and technology, administration, and law, all in support of the vast world government that they built.
		Culturally, the Romans had a slight inferiority complex in regards to the Greeks, who had begun their city-states only a few centuries before the rise of the Roman republic.
	www.lost-civilizations.net /ancient-rome-history.html (390 words)

	Roman
		Roman or some cognate means "novel" in many European languages; in such languages, the cognates of novel mean English "novella"
		Roman alphabet (Latin alphabet), the standard script of the English language and most of the languages of western and central Europe, and of those areas settled by Europeans
		Roman numerals, numeral system where certain letters are given a numeral value
	articles.gourt.com /en/Roman (268 words)

	Third Century Crisis - History for Kids!
		Historians disagree about the reasons, but certainly one reason was that the Romans were constantly being attacked by the Sassanids in the East and at the same time by the Germans in the North.
		Because emperors kept being killed in battle or by the rebellious soldiers, there were many emperors during this century.
		The Romans: From Village to Empire, by Mary Boatwright, Daniel Gargola, and Richard Talbert (2004).
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/romans/history/crisis.htm (628 words)

	Book Publication: Roman Coins And Their Values By David R Sear
		The third volume of the fully revised and expanded general catalogue of Roman coins extends coverage of the Imperial series from the accession of Maximinus I in AD 235 down to the assassination of Carinus and the accession of Diocletian half a century later.
		This turbulent period, during which the Empire came close to total collapse and disintegration, witnessed great changes in the Imperial coinage including unprecedented debasement and the beginning of the decentralization of the mint system.
		The extensive 3rd century coinage of Roman Egypt, struck at Alexandria, is also covered comprehensively in continuation of the format established in the two previous volumes of the Millennium Edition.
	www.davidrsear.com /roman_coins3.html (272 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Main Page
		(17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800.
		Bust of Richard Bently by Roubiliac A bust is a sculpture depicting a persons chest, shoulders, and head, usually supported by a stand.
		Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 N.S.â€“4 July 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801â€“09), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of Republicanism in the United States.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia (3660 words)

	The De Bellis Bookstore
		A History of the Later Roman Empire, AD 284-641: The Transformation of the Ancient World (Blackwell History of the Ancient World) by Stephen Mitchell (Sep 1, 2006)
		Rome's Gothic Wars: From the Third Century to Alaric (Key Conflicts of Classical Antiquity) by Michael Kulikowski (Oct 30, 2006)
		The Battle That Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest
	fanaticus.org /DBA/bookstore (879 words)

	Origin Roman Coins Collectors Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Proof of its Roman origin can be found in the coins, cinerary urns and epigraphs discovered near the village: people could enter this typical medieval settlement, fortified and surrounded with walls...
		Coins found in the fields around Barton have been dated back to 4th century AD and a human skeleton was found in neighbouring property in 1973 probably of Roman origin.
		The text excludes a Roman origin of the unit, since it states that it was introduced when God gave intellect and wisdom to man, and mankind erected cities, plotted fields, marked boundaries, and...
	www.coinshark.com /coins/Origin-Roman-Coins.html (3093 words)

	Rome and Romania, 27 BC-1453 AD
		Some material on earlier history may be found at "Historical Background to Greek Philosophy" and "Historical Background to Hellenistic Philosophy".
		Discussion of the period covered by this page may be found in "Decadence, Rome and Romania, the Emperors Who Weren't, and Other Reflections on Roman History".
		Emperor Boris II Bulgaria conquered by John I Tzimisces, 971
	www.romanity.org /friesian/romania.htm (377 words)

	Commodus to Alexander Severus - History for Kids!
		His son's name was Commodus, and when Marcus Aurelius died in 180 AD Commodus took over the Roman Empire.
		A few of the more powerful men in Rome called themselves emperor, but all of them were quickly killed in their turn.
		In 193 AD an African named Septimius Severus, who was the general of the army in Upper Pannonia, made himself emperor with the support of the army.
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/romans/history/severans.htm (550 words)

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