... becomes first emperor to spend his reign away from Rome due to frontier problems 285-324 AD Period of unrest and division of empire under numerous emperors' Roman emperor (285-305). Although he was the son of Dalmatian slaves (Eutropius, ix. 19), he rose to the highest honors ... and similar to that possessed by Hadrian (Num. R. xii. 4). The battle of Adrianople was the beginning of the end for the Roman empire. This battle was fought between Roman emperor Valens and the Goths on August 9, AD 378. It took place ten miles outside the city of Adrianople, which is now the ... 4) The German...

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... unrest which resulted in a decline of the city until the early 1080's. The city desperately needed a ruler who would upheave them from the empire's current downward spiral. In 1080, "there were several self-appointed candidates to save Rome: NikephorosBryennios, Nikephoros Basilakios, and Nikephoros Botaneiates and ... Nikephoros Melissenos – all owing their first names, 'the one who brings victory', to a different age, when the empire could look forward to continued success and prosperity. None of these men, though, could provide the answer to Byzantium's problems. Alexius Komne...

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... . Pope Urban II wanted them to stop this continual warfare. It was like a plague upon Europe. Urban also described the Turkish attacks on the Christian Empire. Rather than fight with their fellow Christians, the Pope wanted the people to attack these Turks. From this, the Crusades were born. The people were ... outside the Muslim fold."1 The Muslims took over the southern half of the Roman world. The rest was divided into two parts, the Eastern Empire and the Western, which included France, part of Germany, Italy and Britain. In the East, the empire was based on Constantinople and had a...

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... the 11th and 13th centuries in an effort to reclaim the Holy Land from the Muslims. Since 638 when the Muslims took Jerusalem from the Byzantine Empire the Muslims posed a large threat to Europe. Over the centuries the Muslims took more land in North Africa, the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, ... on the Muslims. Many power hungry leaders set out on a "Crusade" to throw the Muslims out of the area once controlled by the Byzantine Empire. These leaders were looking to gain land power and gold from this military conquest. Both sides were determined to keep the holy land under their c...

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