Ausonius, 9 the friend of the Emperor Valentinian, and the latest poet of eminence in the
Western Empire, has handed down some of these fables in verse, which Julianus Titianus, a contemporary writer of no great name, translated into prose.
18th century "Old Kingdom Colonialism" and 19th Century "European Centralism," catalogued an apology for
Western empire building and imperialism.
Francesco Jodice'swork from his latest series, Sunset Boulevard, investigates the last great
Western empire. Jodice rediscovers and captures "The American West" with traces of its magical geological history and recent colonization, such as Hollywood, nuclear testing, and militarization.
In a recent August 12, 2018 speech Erdogan said that the economic warfare of US may trigger a geopolitical shift in NATO alliance and according to CNN security analyst Samantha Vinograd, Turkey is constantly getting closer to Iran on every front which is good for Tehran and bad for the
Western empire.
And, as is so often the case with deceptively omnipotent organizations, it is the
Western Empire's ability to dominate the world without being noticed which makes it so sinister, so powerful and so deadly.
475: Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Western Roman Emperor: his deposition less than a year later by Germanic Arian Christian warrior Odoacer is seen as marking the end of the
Western Empire. 1517: Martin Luther, moral theology professor at the University of Wittenberg, sent his 95 'theses' to the Archbishop of Mainz: his objections to the sale of indulgences that reduced a person's time in Purgatory set him in opposition to papal authority and are seen as sparking the Protestant Reformation which split away from the Roman Catholic Church.
He sets across the dangerous lands of the
western Empire, which now lie in open revolt, in search of anyone who can help him.
We opted first for around 300 A.D., the period of Diocletian and Constantine, but met with loud disapproval from colleagues demanding that we extend it at least to the break-up of the
Western empire around 500.
The end of the
Western Empire came swiftly after that; within years of the end of the Western Roman Empire, a Gothic monarch, Theoderic the Great, ruled the entire Italian peninsula and much of central Europe (the so-called Ostrogothic Kingdom).
She describes Italy before the Romans and Rome under kings, the expansion of Rome, foreign enemies, Rome's domination as a world power, the rise of Octavian, how Rome became and expanded as an empire, rulers from Tiberius to Nero and Constantine to Theodosius, military rule, and the transformation of the
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