... many of the borders were left relatively unguarded from enemy attack made it more susceptible and appealing to enemies. It was actually the location of the Middle East that helped to keep them out of harms way after the empire split in 330 B.C. Diocletian, who was elected by the army, was one ... who decided to split the empire in hopes of creating a better system. The Middle East was in the Eastern Empire. Political and economic reasons, along with problems with foreigners, also are given credit for the collapse of the almighty Roman Empire. Almost all ... the Roman Empire had 26 lead...

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... end of the second century AD, the empire encompassed most of the Mediterranean, including Spain, France, most of Britain, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East, Egypt, and Northern Africa. The beginning of the end for this great empire can be traced as far back as Julius Caesar and his crossing ... above which meant there fewer people to tax. No one perceived that rising inflation and taxation would ultimately squeeze out or do away with the middle class, creating a large underclass with a very rich upper class that was odds with each other. There were still man good governors and...

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... Its history goes back about 50,000 years ago. In the past centuries, many empires and cultures have affected Afghanistan. Empires in the Middle East, Asia and the Mediterranean world have shaped Afghanistan in some way. About 50,000 years ago, during the Vedic Age, the first ... make tools out of iron. By 500 B.C., they developed a written language, called Sanskrit. Priests used Sanskrit to record their sacred texts. In the Middle East, around 500 B.C., the Persian Empire came to existence. Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered a wide sweep of territory from Asia Minor to India ... and sout...

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... much value to them were Thrace, Macedonia, and Greece. These three lands were all located in the same area, providing a throughway to Rome for trade routes from China and the Middle East. Thrace, being on the south western coast of the Black Sea made it easy for the Romans to sail farther inland to what is today Russia. Greece was located ... weren't as advanced as the Greeks. Thrace would link Rome closer to Asia through the port city of Byzantium. This city was along the major routes coming out of the Middle East and China. The Romans left their mark on all of these areas from archite...

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classical,choral,chants Classical Music was a popular term for the Western tradition of art music that began in Europe in the Middle Ages. Classical music has these types of music, symphonies, chamber music, opera and other music. Choral Music was music that was sung by a group of people, using two or more ... the bible that christians and jews shared. In Spain, there was a chant repertory called Mozarabic chant it was named after the Mozarab Christians who lived in Arabdominated Spain during the Middle Ages until the 11th century. Today in this generation chant is still used by few spanish...

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... Rome wasn't something that happened over night. The whole process lasted hundreds of years. Also, all of Rome did not disintegrate. Only the western half of Rome fell; for the eastern half was wealthier and less afflicted by barbarians and civil wars. There is no single reason for Rome's decline. However, it can more or less be broken down into three ... . The sporadic barbarian attacks left border regions destroyed and depopulated. In order to defend themselves they needed a stronger army so higher taxes and labor services were forced upon citizens causing middle and lower class people ...

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... corrupt making it a rather foolish thing to give them the soul responsibility to guard Rome against the encroaching tribesmen. In 284AD Diocletian divided the empire into two separate states, the eastern and the western. Although this seemed like a good idea at the time, it proved not to be so. When the barbarians attacked western Rome the east did not help protect ... . Taxes also increased and the poor became the ones that carried the burden of paying them. This led to many people selling both themselves and their families into slavery. The middle classes disintegrated and made way for...

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