Identifier: medievalmodernhi00adam (find matches)
Title: Medieval and modern history; an outline of its development
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Adams, George Burton, 1851-1925
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company London, Macmillan and co., ltd.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d of the first century, tion moreA.D., marks the close also of the first age in the history of ^^^^^ ^^^ •the Empire. The constitution had now become much moremonarchical in form. Tiberius took away from the assem-blies the election of the magistrates and gave it to the Sen-ate, and the last kx was passed by the people in the reignimmediately following Domitians. The Senate ceased to be an independent part of the government and became agreat council of state for the emperors. The reign of terrorunder which the capital lived during almost the wholeperiod did not extend to the provinces, and they enjoyed The prov-almost unbroken prosperity under governors whom the i^ces pros-provincials could impeach at Rome for misconduct withsome chance of success and with provincial assembheswhich had some influence on the conduct of local affairs. 12 The Empire and its Decline (§9 The frontiers of the Rhine* and *Danutj?ivei^-made secureagainst the Germans, and tbef.ifeastern frontier against the
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Arch of Trajan Parthians, the successors of the Persians. A great insur-rection of the Jews was put down after a desperate struggleby Vespasian and his son Titus, and one in Gaul under §10) The Five Good Emperors 13 Civilis about the same time. The conquest of Britain,begun under Claudius, was completed by Agricola, thefather-in-law of the historian Tacitus, under the Flavianemperors. Still more important were the processes of Romanizationand centralization which go on rapidly during this century.Claudius adopted the plan of admitting distinguished pro-vincials to the Senate, and this policy, followed by his suc-cessors, did much to form one nation of the Empire. Theworship of the emperors genius, as the guardian genius ofthe state, became during the century a universal religion,the one universal religion of the Empire, serving not merelyto bind the Empire together, but to awaken a feeling of per-sonal devotion, akin to patriotism. 10. The Five Good Emperors. — The second century,A

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