my girlfriend is starting to hangout with me more less now and i wanted to know that is she dating another guy or is she really busy?
-from anonomous
Well i’m not really sure. It really depends on what kind of person she is and what she does for a living. I’m thinking that maybe she’s working overtime. She might have problems with her friends but it really depends on her and her personality.
Dear Abby,
my friend is really weird. He tells me that he has this disease that makes you taste a color and see the letter a as red like an apple. So, do you know what kind of disease does he have?
-from anonomous
He has a disease called synthesia. It’s a disease that you see numbers and letters as colored numbers and letters instead of just regular. In my opinion, I think it’s pretty cool. So this should answer your questions about your weird friend.
The Fall of the Western Empire
The Fall of the western roman empire was the beginning of the Middle Ages in 476 AD.The Western Roman Empire was at its greatest physical extent under Trajan (emperor 98–117), who ruled a prosperous state that stretched from Mesopotamia to the coasts of the Atlantic. Its financial system allowed it to raise significant taxes which, despite endemic corruption, supported a large regular army with logistics and training. The cursus honorum, a standardized series of military and civil posts suitable for ambitious aristocratic men, ensured that powerful noblemen were familiar with military command. At a lower level within the army, connecting the aristocrats at the top with the private soldiers, a large number of centurions were well-rewarded, literate, and responsible for training, discipline, administration, and leadership in battle. City governments with their own properties and revenues functioned effectively at local level; membership of the city councils involved lucrative opportunities for independent decision-making, and, despite its obligations, was regarded as a privilege. Under a series of emperors who each adapted a mature and capable successor, civil wars were not required to regulate the succession. Requests could be submitted directly to the better emperors, and the answers had the force of law, putting the imperial power directly in touch with even humble subjects. The mutual tolerance of pagans produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord. Religious strife was rare after the suppression of the Bar Kokhba in 136 (after which the devastated Judaea ceased to be a major centre for Jewish unrest). Heavy mortality from 165 in the Antonine Plague seriously impaired attempts to repel Germanic invaders, but the borders of the Empire were generally held or at least speedily restored. The Empire suffered a serious crisis in the third century, associated with the rise of the Sassanid Empire which inflicted three crushing defeats on Roman field armies and remained a potent threat for centuries. Other disasters included repeated civil wars, barbarian invasions, and more mass mortality in the Plague of Cyprian. Dacia on the north of the Danube was abandoned, as were some other peripheral territories, and for a short period the Empire was divided into a Gallic Empire in the West, a Palmyrene Empire in the East, and a central Roman rump state. The Rhine/Danube frontier also came under more effective threat from larger barbarian groupings, which had developed better agriculture and larger populations. The Empire survived the crisis of the third century, directing its economy successfully towards defence, but survival came at the price of a more centralized and bureaucratic state. Under Gallienus the senatorial aristocracy ceased to provide the senior military commanders, its typical members being neither interested in military nor good at command. The empire was reunited under Aurelian in 274 and reorganized by Diocletian (from 284) and his successors with more emphasis on the military. John the Lydian, over two centuries later, reported that Diocletian's army at one point totalled 389,704 men, plus 45,562 in the fleets, and numbers may have increased later. With the limited communications of the time, both the European and the Eastern frontiers needed the attention of their own emperor. Diocletian tried to solve this problem by re-establishing an adoptive succession with a senior (Augustus) and junior (Caesar) emperor in each half of the Empire, but this system of Tetrarchy broke down within one generation; the hereditary principle was re-established with generally unfortunate results, and civil war was thereafter the main method of establishing new imperial regimes. Although the Empire was again re-united by Constantine the Great, towards the end of the fourth century the need for division was no longer disputed. From then on, the Empire existed in constant tension between the need for two emperors and their mutual mistrust. For another century the united Empire was powerful enough to launch attacks against its enemies in Germania and the Sassanid Empire. Reception of barbarians was widely practiced; potentially hostile groups were admitted to the Empire, split up, and allotted lands, status, and duties within the imperial system. In this way many groups provided unfree workers (coloni) for Roman landowners, and recruits (laeti) for the Roman army. Sometimes their leaders became officers. Normally the process was carefully managed, with sufficient military force on hand to ensure compliance, and cultural assimilation followed over the next generation or two. However, after the lower left bank of the Rhine was settled with Franks by Constantine, their settlements required a line of fortifications to keep them in check. This indicates that Rome had lost almost all local control.The legal fiction of the early Empire (in which the emperor was but the First among equals) was disposed of; the emperors, beginning with Aurelian, openly styled themselves as dominus et deus, lord and god, titles appropriate for a slave towards his master. An elaborate court ceremonial was developed, and obsequious flattery became the order of the day. Under Diocletian, the flow of direct requests to the emperor was rapidly reduced and soon ceased altogether. No other form of direct access replaced them, and the emperor received only information that was filtered through his courtiers. Official cruelty, supporting extortion and corruption, may also have become more commonplace. While the scale, complexity, and violence of government were unmatched, the emperors lost control over their whole realm insofar as that control came increasingly to be wielded by anyone who paid for it. Meanwhile the richest senatorial families, immune from most taxation, engrossed more and more of the available wealth and income, while also becoming divorced from any tradition of military excellence. Within the late Roman military, many recruits and even officers were of barbarian origin, and there was increasing use of possibly-barbarian rituals such as elevating a claimant on shields. This has been seen as a potential weakness; others disagree, seeing neither barbarian recruits nor new rituals as causing any problem with the effectiveness or loyalty of the army.
Church
Today, churches are common everywhere that are Catholic and Christian. In the Middle Ages, churches were everywhere too. Catholics take about 1/7 of the world population. Christians take about 2.1 billion of the world population. Catholics and Christians take 3/7 of the world population. Catholic Churches in the medieval times and today are the same but have some differences too. In the Middle Ages, they prayed in Latin. Today they say whatever language they speak in churches.
Health Tips
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always start the day with a good breakfast
take your medicine before sleeping
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Pope: Well, I recieved this letter from the Byzantine emperor Alexius I Comnenus for a call for help. The Seljuk Turks (Muslims) had taken over Anatolia (present day Turkey) in the 1070s after the Battle of Manzikert and by the 1090s were threatening Constantinople. So in response, i called the first crusade. I have many several agendas of starting this. First of all, i wanted to expand the influence of the Roman church to the eastern mediterranean. Second of all, I wanted unmolested travel for christian pilgrims to the Holy Land. Third of all, I had a problem at home in Europe with knights constantly fighting amongst each other but, also attacking priests, nuns and church property. So, because these ruffians damaged property damage and attacking people, I got rid of these men fighting far away against Muslim Turks or Arabs.
Alan: Why was this such a great idea?
Pope: When the crusaders came back from their trips with a great amount of knowledge and ideas, they gave us their knowledge that the crusades ended the Dark ages.
Alan: What was your sole purpose/goal starting the crusades?
Pope: The whole purpose of starting the Crusades was to restore Christian access to the holy lands of Jerusalem and free the Jerusalem city from the Muslim rulers. We also wanted to take back our religious rights from the muslim control.
Alan: Why did the Muslims fight back for the holy land?
Pope: In my belief, the Muslims fought back for the holy land because the Holy Land was the Muslim Prophet Muhammad first took his “night journey” to the middle east. There he then went to heaven for one night.
Alan: If you could compare the Crusades you started and the crusades today, what would you say is the most effective?
Pope: The Crusades that I have started. After the crusades ended, the effects were major. The effects of the crusades influenced the wealth and power of the catholic church, political, commerce, feudalism, social development, intellectual development, material development and voyages of discovery.
Alan: Thank you Pope Urban II for you being here to answer my questions about the crusades.