Timeline for Preventing the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire
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| Dec 21, 2022 at 5:25 | comment | added | user86462 | @AlexP Oh ok re: ity/ism. The ism in English implies a political ideology pertaining to Christianity or form of Christian religion totally bent upon political dominance with the actual religion secondary. Same with Islam/Islamism. Because English is a complete mess, Hinduism/Judaism/Buddhism are the actual religions. | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 9:22 | history | edited | AlexP | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 20, 2022 at 9:20 | comment | added | AlexP | @SeanOConnor: The western half was at least mostly doomed. Gaul was as good as lost, most likely Iberia too. Yes, the empire could have kept Italy; and, in fact, it did recover and keep large parts of Italy for quite a few centuries. | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 9:16 | comment | added | AlexP | @SeanOConnor: It's a mindless carry-over from my own language, where the -ism word is much more common as name of the religion that the -ity word as the name of the religion. (In Romanian, the -ity word is usually taken to mean what in English is called Christendom.) Thanks to your comment I just found out that In English the -ity word is much more common than the -ism word. Searched and replaced throughout the answer. | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 3:33 | comment | added | user86462 | @AlexP What's with the weird 'Christianism' term? The name of the religion, love it or hate it, is Christianity. | |
| Dec 20, 2022 at 3:21 | comment | added | user86462 | @AlexP Was the Western half doomed at the time of partition? I think we can all agree the East/West split had to happen, be it partial (tetrarchy), or complete. Take away a barbarian migration or two, take away Honorius and Stilichio and the West crawls on a lot longer. I agree Diocletian was a genius, but Constantine was far from a slug. | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 19:51 | comment | added | user53220 | @AlexP Haha ok ! Thx :) | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 16:20 | comment | added | AlexP | @user53220: That would be AlechR... The Latin alphabet is descended from a Western (= European) variant of the Greek alphabet, where the letter H stood for "h", and X stood for "ks". The standard Greek alphabet is descended from an Eastern (= Ionian, in Asia Minor) variant, where the letters F (waw or digamma, representing the sound "w") and Q (qoppa) were lost, the aitches were dropped early so the letter H changed from hēta to just ēta (and thus stood for "ē"), and X stood for ch (the sound of the letters c and k in the English words cut and kin). | |
| Aug 13, 2018 at 16:06 | history | edited | AlexP | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Missing word
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| Aug 13, 2018 at 13:15 | comment | added | user53220 | I just noticed that AlexP is Ale + ☧ ! | |
| Aug 12, 2018 at 12:33 | comment | added | AlexP | @MikeScott: He recognized that the empire had a structural problem, he diagnosed it correctly, and he offered a novel solution. His solution didn't work, but it might have worked, at least for a time; but it was not to be. Contrast with Constantine, who saw the same problems, decided they were intractable, and simply partitioned the empire into a "good" eastern half and a "bad" western half; this allowed the eastern half to survive for a thousand years, but condemned the western half to the long night of the middle ages. | |
| Aug 12, 2018 at 6:28 | comment | added | Mike Scott | @AlexP If Diocletian issued edicts that were ignored, laid the foundations for a massive civil war, and destroyed the economy, then what exactly makes him a “political genius”? | |
| Aug 11, 2018 at 20:07 | history | edited | AlexP | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
lose not loose
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| Aug 11, 2018 at 20:05 | comment | added | AlexP | @user53220: Diocletian was the closest thing to a political genius the late empire produced. Alas, he fell far short of his goal of saving the empire. He issued several edicts against Christians, which were by and large ignored by the population. He introduced the tetrarchy as a solution to the problem of governing a very large and very diverese empire; it decayed into the mother of civil wars within his lifetime. He issued an Edict on Maximum Prices which destroyed what little remained of the economy of the western half of the empire. | |
| Aug 11, 2018 at 19:52 | history | edited | AlexP | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Licini**u**s
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| Aug 11, 2018 at 19:37 | comment | added | user53220 | Thanks, I was not aware of this. It is even more surprising to me that Diocletian persecuted Christians in the beginning of the 4th century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletian#Great_Persecution . But apparently it was for political motivations. | |
| Aug 11, 2018 at 16:56 | history | answered | AlexP | CC BY-SA 4.0 |