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Why was the holy roman emperor a weak title?
There were several reasons why the Holy Roman Emperor's title was rather weak. One was that the emperor was elected. The emperors were not able to build dynasties that had the power other royal houses had. Another was that the Holy Roman Empire was made up of a large number of relatively independent states, literally hundreds of them. Some of these were very small, and they included bishoprics, free cities, and communes. Others, such as the Kingdom of Bohemia and large and powerful in their own right. The leaders of these various states were very jealous of the power of their own territories and did not want the empire to gain power at their expense. The Holy Roman Empire was also mostly German, but not entirely so. The German areas were divided not those speaking High German dialects and those speaking Saxon or Low German dialects. But there were also important areas where people spoke French, Italian, or any of a number of Slavic languages, to name a few. Uniting these people into a cohesive nation was next to impossible.
What Roman emperor restored stability to the Roman Empire?
The emperor Aurelian reunited the Roman Empire. He defeated Zenobia of Palmyra (in Syria) who had overrun the Levant (Syria, Lebanon, and Israel), part of present day Turkey and Egypt and broke away from the empire, creating her own state, which historians call the Palmyrene Empire) and renegotiated the reunification with the breakaway part of the empire which historians call the "Gallic Empire"(Britain and Gaul). For this he was given the title Restitutor Orbi (Restorer of the World). The emperor Diocletian took further steps to stabilise the empire. He established the tetrarchy (rule by four). He nominated Maximian co-emperor. Diocletian took charge of the east and Maximian took charge of the west. He then appointed two junior emperors and put them in charge of troubled frontier areas. The subdivided the empire into four main administrative units (the praetorian prefectures), each headed by one of the four emperors. He also doubled the number of Roman provinces to reduce the power of the provincial governors and grouped them into twelve intermediate administrative units (the dioceses). He doubled the size of the imperial bureaucracy. All these measures were aimed at strengthening imperial control.
Why did settlers settle in the new world?
Well for one, they were going to the new world to escape the Roman Catholic Church and make their own church.
When was the last farthing circulated in Australia?
Australia has never had a Farthing coin. Australia's own currency was introduced progressively from 1910.Any Farthings circulating in Australia would have been British Farthings and, there being no equivalent Australian coin, these would have been removed from circulation not long afterwards.
1 Who united Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire?
Europe is not united, and never has been. Each country within Europe has its own sovereignty and allegiances The Roman Empire never governed the whole of Europe. Much of Germany, all of Scotland and Ireland were never part of the Roman Empire. The Jutes, Angles and Saxons, for example, invaded Roman Britain from unconquered lands of Europe; the European Franks invaded the areas now called France; and the Huns and the Visigoths invaded other parts of the 'European' extent of the Roman Empire in the first 500 years AD. The fall of the Western part of the Roman Empire as often dated as 476, but individual local sovereignties had already begun to emerge by this time. After the Romans, different groups struggled for supremacy. However, not one of them achieved a united Europe. * For more information, see Related links below this box.
