The Fall, The Rise

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While the spread of Christianity may have played a small role in curbing Roman civic virtue, most scholars now argue that its influence paled in comparison to military, economic and administrative factors. The serpent tempted Eve to eat fruit from the forbidden tree, which she shared with Adam, and they immediately became ashamed of their nakedness. Although God had reminded them that there was enough provision for them "Here it is guaranteed that you will never go hungry or unclothed, nor will you ˹ever˺ suffer from thirst or ˹the sun’s˺ heat. Constant wars and overspending had significantly lightened imperial coffers, and oppressive taxation and inflation had widened the gap between rich and poor. While its legitimacy lasted for centuries longer and its cultural influence remains today, the Western Empire never had the strength to rise again.

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Gnosticism presents a distinction between the highest, unknowable God, and the Demiurge, "creator" of the material universe. citation needed] Though these settlements may have been relatively egalitarian compared to more modern societies, the Genesis narrative may be interpreted as mourning the hunter-gatherer life as a paradise lost. After doing so, they became ashamed of their nakedness and God expelled them from the Garden to prevent them from eating the fruit of the tree of life and becoming immortal.

With the limited communications of the time, both the European and the Eastern frontiers needed the attention of their own supreme commanders. The thirst for power shared by all Roman emperors fueled an unprecedented mastery of engineering and labor.

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The rising Sassanid Empire inflicted three crushing defeats on Roman field armies and remained a potent threat for centuries. Christianity displaced the polytheistic Roman religion, which viewed the emperor as having a divine status, and also shifted focus away from the glory of the state and onto a sole deity. The project is a success until a group of people who have fallen afoul of the "Perrins Peace Keeping Force" trash the place. The schism of east and west created not just an eastern capital first in Nicomedia and then Constantinople, but also a move in the west from Rome to Milan.Tom Patterson, her husband: Tim Preece (first two series and Legacy) and Leslie Schofield (third series) (catchphrase: "I'm not a —— person. Civil war thrust the empire into chaos, and more than 20 men took the throne in the span of only 75 years, usually after the murder of their predecessor.