6.+50+CE+to+300+CE

=60-61 CE The Rebellion Boudicca=

Boudicca was mad that her daughters were raped so she led an army of 100,000 to fight against against Rome. The one issue with Boudicca leading a revolt was that there were no Romans near Iceni, where she was queen. The Roman governor, Suetonius, did march to Iceni. Boudicca led her army to a camp of retired Roman officers. The retired soldiers were surprised by the iceni attack. For several days they fought bravely but it was no use. 200 man were sent by the Procurator of Londinium but it was too little too late.

Boudicca set fire to the town and slaughtered the townspeople. Her and her comrades marched to Londinium and ran the prouurator, Decianus, out of town. Now, an army led by Petilius cerialis, tried to help the Roman officers but they were obviously too late. On his way there cirialis walked into an ambush. His infantry was destroyed, but the calvary escaped. With Cerialis, small army, Boudicca was able to continue her conquest. In the meantime, Governor Suetonius gathered 10,000 men to battle Boudicca at Lonainium.

He decided the city was not the right setting for a battle since it wasn't well fortified so he took anyone that would fight and left the rest to the mercy of Icenis's ueen. Boudicca killed all the townspeope and burned the city to the ground. She followed Suetonius to the next town, Veraluamium. The people knew she was comming and they escaped. She burned the city anyway. Left with 10,000 men to fight, Suetonius battled Boudicca's 200,000 men on the high ground in the forested midlands.

=79 CE Eruption of Vesuvius =

August 24, 79 CE Mount Vesuvius erupted spewing large amounts of molten ash, pumice and sulfuric gas. A cloud of poisonous gasses surrounded the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. Before the eruption of 79, earthquakes occurred for some time, but were disregarded by local inhabitants because of their familiarity with the phenomenon. Seneca reports that an earthquake occurred on 5 February of 62 (according to Tacitus) or 63 AD.

=155-225 CE Tertullian=

= = Tertullian use to live in ancient city of Carthage in now what is called Tunisia. He was born a member of the educated classes and got a good education.Tertullian wrote a great number of works and he was the first christian writer to write in latin. He saw christians being executed by watching a slave man and a slave woman getting executed he decided to become christian himself.

=204 CE Ruled 218-222 Elagabalus=

=240 CE Ruled 266-273 Zenobia=

** Zenobia was an ancient queen of the eastern city of Palmyra. She was tutored by a philosopher named Longinus and she became a big threat to the Roman empire. She was said to be quite beautiful, and was highly intelligent, she could speak numerous languages, and completely ruling her domain. Her husband, King Odenathus, had successfully created the city Palmyra.

** Palmyra was an oasis city on the trade route between China, Persia, and Rome, it was also known as being the economic and cultural centre of the east. After king Odenathus death Zenobia began to get eastern asia minor, Syria, northern Mesopotamia, and even Egypt into Palmyrian territory. Zenobia thought of taking advantage of the Roman empire to expand her own empire. =250 CE Ruled 284-305 Diocletian =

** He Rose from a lower standing in society to become his Emperor's bodyguard, he waged successful military campaigns and became Emperor himself in 284CE. ** Diocletian's writings include the Decree against the Manichaeans. Diocletian instituted reforms in an attempt to preserve an empire which had experienced a century of tumult. His attempt to preserve, regardless of how positive one might choose to regard his genius, contributed not to preservation, but instead, cemented the Empire's transformation to Medievalism. The organization of Roman society had changed, and would continue to change, in a radical way and in essential aspects. Its economy, political structure, ideology, and spirituality were concurrently transformed. Diocletian realized that the administration of the Empire had become cumbersome due to its size, and he divided it in half. The western half was governed by Maximian in Rome, while the eastern half would be ruled by Diocletian himself, from Nicomedia. Gone then was the centre of Empire and its autocratic leadership.

Its militaristic underpinnings could never exist as they had in the past.A further essential aspect in this transformation, and illustrative of the ideological shift which it represents, is Diocletian's insistence in being titled Domus (Lord), rather than Emperor, which signifies the growing acceptance of Christian constructs upon society. The Empire was becoming a shadow of incipient Medievalism, just as in centuries past, the Republic had become a shadow of the Empire. The transformation from Ancient to Medieval society was more complex than a simple decline and fall.