Fourth century Roman Emperors were almost all Christian.Fourth century was pre-Christianity and pre-translatio imperii. The ideology justifying the rule of the Emperor was far different than in later centuries.
Fourth century Roman Emperors were almost all Christian.Fourth century was pre-Christianity and pre-translatio imperii. The ideology justifying the rule of the Emperor was far different than in later centuries.
Fourth century Roman Emperors were almost all Christian.
Christian church was already there.I meant it was pre Christian Church. The dogma around the Emperor wasn't established quite yet and neither were many issues like the nature of Christ or the Trinity. The prevailing values were mainly pre-Christian secular Roman values and outlook.
The Christian church hierarchy predated the official Christianization of the Empire. Hell, this is even post-council of Nicaea.I meant it was pre Christian Church. The dogma around the Emperor wasn't established quite yet and neither were many issues like the nature of Christ or the Trinity. The prevailing values were mainly pre-Christian secular Roman values and outlook.
This is so laughably false that this shows you don't know much about Chinese history. The Chinese were even conquered by these "barbarians" at least two times, by the Mongols and by the Manchus. Aside from them, throughout Chinese history, you have the Xianyu, Di, Rong, Gui, Jurchens, Xiongnu, Tibetans, Korean and Vietnamese peoples, even the Russians and Japanese can count. If China is a single state right now, it's just because of a struck of luck that the Qing dynasty and the Chinese Republic that turned into the current Communist China were able to keep their territories together.The Chinese river systems might not be quite as lucrative a place as the Mediterranean, but the Chinese at least didn't have dozens of barbarian groups chomping at the bit of that massively spread out borders.
This right here. I mean, the European Union is just basically ancient Rome. The Communist regime of China may appreciate the long continuous history of Chinese civilisation, but it doesn't consider itself a continuation of the dynastic empires that ruled China.well, I'm just saying the empire never quite died. you simply need someone to control rome. ( if you want it to be western roman)
if you are talking a continuation of rome .. as rome. IE the guals thought of themselves as Roman, etc etc etc.. that was never the case in the empire for most people. even language was diverse. have rome promote more education, a more single language ( yes I know greek, latin were fairly standard. ) but there was a multiude of other languages, coupled with the fact that places like Gual were not exactly Romanized, nor was Iberia.
The Middle east was its own drama center and Anatolia started its shift around 330 AD.
so i'm saying the concept of the empire never died, that is what made china, china. the problem is that in Europe you had vast migrations, lots of wars, black plague, crazy religions and no unifying power after its collapse. China could pretty much rely on the cultural identity being homogeneous with in reason.
In Europe the best you are going to get is the concept of "the empire" being preserved.
The western empire was pretty much toast with the migrations.
It actually does.It’s how the CCP justifies its’ control over Xinjiang and Tibet,as well as its’ claim over Taiwan.This right here. I mean, the European Union is just basically ancient Rome. The Communist regime of China may appreciate the long continuous history of Chinese civilisation, but it doesn't consider itself a continuation of the dynastic empires that ruled China.
The Christian church hierarchy predated the official Christianization of the Empire. Hell, this is even post-council of Nicaea.