The Ancient and Medieval World
About This Book
Administrative Divisions of the Roman Empire c. 14 CE (map) Tracey J. Kinney By 14 CE, Rome’s territorial extent included the entire Mediterranean Sea. This large territory was separated into various provinces in order to govern it more easily. The relationship between these provinces and the empire varied; some were ruled directly by the Roman emperor/state; some were managed by members of the Roman Senate; while some existed relatively autonomously, maintaining good relations with Rome as clie
| Category | humanities |
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| Subject | European history: medieval period, middle ages, Ancient history |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 31 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- The Case of Polycarp
- Featured Individual: Vibia Perpetua
- A Renaissance Conception of Martyrdom
- Sources & Suggestions for Further Reading
- Muhammad and the Origins of Islam
- What Muslims Believe
- The Pact of ‘Umar
- An Account of the Muslim Conquest of Syria
- The First Fitna and the Origins of Shi‘ism
- The Hadith of Ghadir Khumm
- Sources & Suggestions for Further Research
- The Plague of Justinian, c. 541-542
- The Plague of 664
- Plague in an Ancient City
- Sources & Suggestions for Further Research
- Symptoms and Treatment
- Sources & Suggestions for Further Research
- Primary Navigation
- The Succession
- Hincmar of Reims against Charles Martel
- Reintegration of the Peripheral Principalities
- The Battle of Poitiers as Viewed by an Anonymous Christian Mozarabic Chronicler
- Consolidation
- Sources & Suggestions for Further Research
- Classical Roman Empire
- Early Byzantine Period (330–717)
- Middle Byzantine Period (717-1071)
- Sources and Suggestions for Further Reading
- Origins of the True Stirrup
- The Pictorial Evidence
- The Stratēgikon of the Emperor Maurice