Constantine : A Influential Leader

In 306 C. E Constantine became Emperor of the Rome. In the Roman Empire Constantine was the first Christian Emperor to rule. In 337 Constantine the great died.

In conclusion, Claudius was a very good emperor since a very young age. He helped a lot of people and also many communities/towns. When something bad happened he knew what to do and then saved the day. He was a very important ruler, that changed a lot of things and did a lot of good

He preserved all of the traditional offices while slowly taking many of the offices for him self. He was both consul and tribune. Commander and chief of the military and the senate also gave him direct control of many provinces, these provinces supplied men for his armies and food for them also, not to the senate. Augustus knew the importance of religion in roman society, he then named himself pontifex maximus which means supreme priest. He encourages the construction of temples dedicated to Rome and Augustus. None of these innovations in his ruling method altered the Roman constitution. The laws he did change however were the laws of the provinces of Rome which made them more romanized, so Augustus could be open about his actions so the senate would not bring him down and be with him. The Romans had a strong sense of there traditions and were fascinated by there history they loved when they could point out how the gods operated in there empire and allowed them much conquest of the western world. Before Augustus it looked for the romans as if the gods had left them, for they killed each other in revolutions and civil wars. Augustus’s many military victories and expansion of the empire through land and a political sense, show that the gods where on his side. He glorified Rome by hiring painters, sculptures, architects, and painters to design and build beautiful structures. He has paved the way for future Roman emperors to come.

Constantine, the son of Constantius I Chlorus, junior emperor and St. Helena, was raised on the court of co-Emperor Diocletian. When his father died in 306, Constantine was declared junior emperor of York, England. He got his power from his father when he became caesar. Constantine was left with Galerius in the court of the emperor Diocletian. When Diocletian and Maximian had to resign in 305, they made Constantine and Galerius emperor.

Octavian Augustus is one of the fiercest leaders in the history of the Roman Empire because of his successful military expansion, his Control of Finance, and his political leadership.

Constantine the ruler of the Roman Empire had been surrounded by many controversies during his reign (Cameron, 14). He was the son of a great warrior and he defeated Manutius a great ruler at Milia Bridge. He had gained much respect and admiration among the Romans as a fair ruler. He emerged as a ruler who supported Christianity and then became popular as a Christian ruler himself. His reign and victory over the Roman Empire is a significant event in the history of Christian religion. With the Edict of Milan in 313 Christianity was recognized as a religion, and the followers were free to practice Christianity without fear. It has been argued that Constantine failed to treat different religions equally as paganism (Cameron, 57). Constantine also sponsored churches, promoted Christians to high government ranks, exempted taxes for the clergy. In the latter days of his rule Constantine had a stricter approach towards Christianity and professed that there is one God, the Christian God. He rewarded building temples into churches. He played a key role in framing important church policies namely The Council of Arles, A.D. 314 and The Council of Nicaea, A.D. 325.

Throughout history, there have been many instances of leaders converting to new religions, but none have had an impact such as the conversion of Constantine I, nor as ground-breaking as that of Clovis I. Constantine I was born in the year 280. During his reign as emperor of the Roman Empire, the state was falling apart. 1 He was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. He called the Council of Nicea in 325 to resolve conflicts arising between the Arian Christians and the Athansian Christians. 2 This resulted in the canonization of Athansian Christianity, to which Constantine I converted his empire. 3Clovis I was born in the year 466, he was the king of the Franks and ruled Gaul for 30 years. 4 It is unknown when he converted to Christianity, however he was baptised in 496. Clovis I was the first Germanic king to convert to Christianity, and while he did not convert his entire state, his conversion was a turning point in Frankish and European history. Behind any conversion, is a reason. For Constantine I, it was an empire coming apart at the seams. For Clovis, it was a need to be more palatable to a mostly Christian populous.

In the image I see a statue of Emperor Constantine sitting on a throne holding his sword. In the image Constantine is sitting down, but he is not slopped over on the throne. Constantine also has a stern look on his face, but he has to be because he is the emperor. The statue is also located by an old building that's in Rome. The building looks like it was built centuries ago.

Constantine the Great was the emperor of Rome and was the Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 AD. During his reign he was the first Christian Emperor; and in various different ways, Constantine changed the lives of his people. Constantine kept his empire stable and his people from turning on him by allowing Christianity in the empire, conquering and gaining more land, and lastly creating Constantinople.

For my adaptive leadership assignment I decided to write about Constantine. He was born in Naissus, Moesia Superior (modern day Serbia) on 27 February in roughly AD 285. His parents, Flavius Valerius Constantius was an army officer of Rome and his mother, Helena. (Constantine I Biography) After his father death it was known that Constantine was going to be the next Roman emperor, but he was ravenous about ruling the whole four sections of Rome. He was a great military commander that he ended up winning most of his battles. One of his greatest battles was against Maxentius at the Battle of the, Milvian Bridge in AD 312 with the largest army. Constantine claimed that an image of a cross or a Christian God appeared in the sky signifying that

became the protector of the Roman people. His backbone of his power was his army but

Nothing that Constantine the Great did shows his ability more clearly than his seizing upon the site of old Byzantium for the location for his new capital. The place was admirably sited for an imperial residence, being over against Asia which the Persians were threatening, and in easy touch with the Danube, where the Northern Barbarians were always swarming… (Sozomen)

When we look back at Christianity over the years, there are several people who are remembered for their impact on the religion. The first most important figure was Jesus Christ. However, if we travel forward a bit, into the 4th Century we come across Constantine. Historians agree that Constantine served as an important component in the spread of Christianity. Although he spread the religion in a massive way, others wonder if his methods were more harmful then anything. In this paper I will be discussing Constantine in his rise to power and his impact on Christianity. Constantine provided a mean for the word of God to be spread, which is a major benefit. However, He also used violence and hate as

After his father’s death in 306, the Gaul army hailed Constantine as their ruler. After five years as the emperor of Gaul, Constantine invaded Italy. After defeating the Roman army, Constantine entered Rome as the ruler of the western half of the empire. In 313, Constantine issued

Constantine the Great is considered to be the founder of the Byzantine Empire. He moved the capitol to Constantinople and dedicated a “new Rome” with the goal of continuing the legacy of the fallen Roman Empire. He did so on the site of the Ancient Greek colony of Byzantium, which is how his empire got its name. This eastern half of the Roman Empire is what survived to leave an impact on the world, while the western half remained only until 476 CE. Additionally, Constantine converted to Christianity and spread his faith throughout the his empire, exposing a much larger group to the new religion and allowing it to grow. Although Constantine ruled over a unified Roman Empire, by moving the capital to the far east, he made possible the separation into two separate states.