Vol 3 Ep 52 - SUMMARY - Ancient Rome, Part Two

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

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🗓️ 3 January 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

41 - 476 - The story of the Principate and the Dominate which includes the struggles of the Jews and the rise of Christianity as well as the pressures from the barbarians and the factors that led to the ultimate split of the Empire and the fall of the West.

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0:00.0	This is the History of the World Podcast with me Chris Hasler
0:14.0	And you're listening to volume three the classical world
0:19.0	episode 52
0:21.0	Ancient Rome a summary part 52. Oh, Emperor Claudius would successfully annex many lands of Britannia after a conflict
0:57.8	between the pro-Roman and anti-Roman tribes of the island.
1:03.0	Even though emperors such as Claudius have a case both for and against him,
1:09.0	being referred to as a good emperor, the Roman Empire was still expanding its borders. Most historians
1:16.4	will agree that Emperor Nero was a bad emperor and he was described as
1:21.6	playing his liar while the city of Rome was on fire in the year
1:26.5	64. This event is very significant though. It is unimaginable that Nero would enjoy seeing the destruction of his affluent
1:36.6	city that supported his lavish lifestyle. There are reports of Nero allowing refuge and relief to some of the 2 million Romans
1:46.7	who are reckoned to have been made homeless by this great fire.
1:51.9	Due to Nero subsequently building a new palace in Rome in the aftermath, some
1:56.8	suggested that he started the fire himself in order to clear space for the project.
2:03.0	Whether this is true or not,
2:05.0	Nero would point his finger firmly
2:08.0	in the direction of the Christians
2:10.0	who were a minor religious group
2:12.0	who had splintered off from the Jewish people.
2:15.0	The heartlands of the Jewish people was Judea and its capital city Jerusalem. These lands had been turned into a Roman province
2:26.6	in the year six when Jesus Christ was just a child. When Jesus was an adult he would deviate from the traditional Judaism
2:36.8	by preaching his alternative. Unfortunately the most prominent Jews at the time were not happy with this, and Jesus was executed
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