How did the Romans go from this...
...to this?
>>18690183lol these are wojaks
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>>18690182>From degenerate, demon-workshipping pagans doomed for Hell to pious, redeemed souls that can obtain HeavenYes i agree, massive improvemenf
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>>18690189ENHANCE
>>18690191the monkey king?
>>18690189>worshiping the vengeful jewish desert storm god that caused women to be raped and killed countless innocents and children that has no proof in reality is the one true religion
>>18690182>>18690183The IV century was a century of great changes in the political, administrative, military, economic and religious ambits, changes that shaped the empire's fate for the next 1,000 years.These 1,000 years were the ones which influenced the most the Western civilization btw.
>>18690502True, pagan Rome had hardly any influence on later Western civilization. Even muh Roman law (which was influenced to a great extent by Easterners like Ulpian) was codified by the Christian Illyrian Justinian.
>>18690182the romans traded their expertise in art for better music
>>18690511Better than that, the Western nations created their chancilleries and political systems by copying the Byzantine model founded by Constantine the Great.The guy did just not changed the religion and capital, but also created a new bureaucratic model that even today, 1700 years later, is still active.Our society of sealed and signed documents, of documents which used repetitive formulas, of jurists trained in public universities to work in an stable administration, and so forth, derives from the Christian Rome of the fourth and fifth centuries.And I can go on, the Western civilization as a whole is just the result of a post apocalyptic Western Romania ruled by Barbarians and guided by the Catholic Church, following the steps of the Byzantines at everything.Even the Medieval Renaissance was the result of Sicilians translating Byzantine works into Latin. And the later on factual Renaissance the resul of Byzantines moving to Italy and opening their own schools in cities such as Rome and Florence.
>>18690576The Byzantine lost access to most Latin literature though. They didn't preserve everything
>>18690183Change in style from realism to abstract
>>18690511>Even muh Roman law (which was influenced to a great extent by Easterners like Ulpian) was codified by the Christian Illyrian Justinian.The first codification of Roman law was done by Diocletian. While the Theodosian one was the first surviving one, and Justinian's was the most influential, it was not the first codification. >>18690576>The guy did just not changed the religion and capital, but also created a new bureaucratic model that even today, 1700 years later, is still active.That was also the work of Diocletian. Constantine did little to change the arrangements of Diocletian when it came to administration, other than recreating what became defunct during the wars of the Tetrarchy. There would be no serious changes to the administration of Diocletian until the 8th century.
>>18691073True. People obsess too much about Caesar and Augustus, when talking about Rome, and too less about Aurelian and Diocletian. These guys basically founded a new empire on the ruins of the old. When medievals thought about the "Roman Empire" and the institution of the Emperor, they had the model of Diocletian in mind.
