The Habsburg Roman Empire (unofficially known as the Roman Empire ) is an elective monarchy. That was first establish in 14 BC, by Augustus Cesar. By 285 AD, the Empire split in two on the orders of Diocletian. Then later, it was united by again Emperor Constantine in 312. Then, it split again into two in 398. During its nineteen hundred years, it was the most powerful empire in Europe, despite setbacks and land losses. It down fall was it became very loosely held together and after it lost in the Great War. There was nothing holding it together.
In 460, the new Emperor Mojorian I decides lead a campian againist vandals in order to restore food supplies. After gathering the Roman Navy, they landed 10 miles away from Carthage, the vandal kingdom's capital. The battle plan was to send half of the army to blocade the wall and half to blocade the sea. They used catapult sea and land to wreck the docks and houses. After one mouth of the seige, carthage surenders. After that most of the battles were easy victories, due to the fact that most leaders were during the seige. So most of the army fell apart. After the conquest of North Africa, they began plans for the campain of Spain.
Other achevements are restoring the economy, by minting more gold and laws againist forgeries. Restore the romans trust in money and reorganized food suppilies. He also helped and bult many aquducts, baths, churchs and forums. The suebi the inhabitants spain have become weakned, by the fact that their allie the vandals have been distroyed by the romans, And become esay pray for the roman army. None of the battles are big or had big looses. The romans were well mached by the visigoth. Who took three years to conqor.
Mojoran spent his final years rebulting rome. By 474, Mojoran had now died. The eastern emperor apointed Julius Nepos as emperor. Who fortified spain and finished Mojorians uncompleted projects.
In 475, Orestie the half-bararian commander was 15 miles away form Ravanna. Insted of fleeing he decide to fight. This is proven to be the right choice. After the battle, he planed his revenge by invadeing Ostrogoth Kingdom. Many of the battles where successful , when they began seige it very easy becaese the walls they were bult in the 2nd centrey and have fell into decay . Nepos plans a campian of Southern Gual.
In 475, the western europe was divied like this. Italy, Hispania, north africa was under the romans most of the empire was stable. Gaul and southern germany was burgundians, allemage, visigoth, franks and roman soissons. Germany was under the saxons, thuringia and rugians and frisians. Nepos first started his campian on southeast gual. The battle had medium losses and had conqored their ill fortified capial. The weathy land owners of these kingdoms begged to still by in power, so disided that they will make a governers court that would help him govern the povince. This will happen all over the reconqored territorty. They were able the conqor allmage who were well matched. Other achievements are bulting 12 unniversties to ravanna and rome and paid techers from constantinople to come to these new unniversties , making skill workers for rome. Nepos began to plan fruther campians but died in 502 before he could start. His plans were left to his son Jullian Nepos the 2nd , who was born in 480. He started a campian of the visigoth kingdom in 504. The visigoth were cornered by the romans, the southern front was lead by Genral Antony and the northern front was lead by Jullian the 2nd. The visigoth put up a good fight, but at end were defeted. As the roman empire grew in terriory in became more repected in reliam. When Jullian died his son, Romulus the 1st became emperor. During his rule he had conqored salian franks, making a treaty with ripuarian franks. He also expaned trade, uncompeted projects by his father and expanded the miliatry. After his death in 580, their were a series of emperors that expended the empire bit by bit. By 600 most germany was under roman control. In 601 a new emperor, Charlemagne the 1st has been crowned. He had big plans for rome. First he started campian on north east germany. The was only inhabited by small tribes,this was biggest conquest since Jullan the 2nd. Then in 602 had sent message eastern emperor. That the empire is too weak control itself, he want him to be emperor and he will be his ceasar. It really a plan to murder him. He went to the imperial court room where he was greeted and killed. With the eastern half under his thumb, was able to reunite the empire. This is to strengthen the army ten fold. But he had a problem, Avar in the north where attacking forts and garrisons on the danube. With the united roman army it was very esay to take it down. They had many battles took place lower dacia were they defeted the avars and there leader. He made them sign a treatie that would give the romans dacia, most of their gold and army.
After his victory over avars. He returned to ravanna where he declared as great as trajan and also restored much of the old roman world. He started to fortified the borders lerning form past mistakes, he also started spereding roman culture in other parts of the empire by paying people form italy to move to outer regions of the empire. The rest of his rule was defending the borders. Charlmagne died in 625 feeling very compelted. After his death rome remained mainly peaceful for the next 92 years. This peace can be compered to the first pax romana. Most romans had returned to having confidnce in there government and the most violence were againist invading arabs and halted their expansion. Most people in the empire where consider roman ethnicly or culturly in the west and the population of cities grew raipedly too. Rome grew form 500,000 in 611 to 800,000 in 641.
By 715, the east and west were to different be together. For exmple the west spoke latin while the east spoke greek. So in 717 the emperor Constintine the 7th disided to spilt the empire a 3rd time and gave it to his bother Romulus II to make the empire more manageable.
The romans have been dealing with lombards since the late 6th centrey, but became ferce in 721. The lombards began to become more powerful and started annaxing small tribes all over poland. By 726 had taken over most of poland. And became more of a menice to the empire. They planed an attack on the lombards due to attacks on villages, forts and barracks. This started the frist lombard war. They gathered the bavarian mercenaries to attack the lombards. The romans destroy many villages but are driven out by lombard army. In 729, They countered with an attack on northern germany, thoa were driven out by an army of saxons. Lead by the emperor Magnus, who became emperor this year. He came form a middle class mercant famlily, Magnus enroll in the army were he rose throse the ranks all away to the imperial court. The previous emperor died with no sugsessor an the senate elected magus as emperor. He lead several roman campians againist the lombards. Some campians were sugsessful some were not. The lombards began their own series of campian. Every time a lombard campian started it got farther into the empire. Many were unsugsessful but some were. In 742, Magnus died leaving the thone to his son Fulvianus. Under his rule farist lombard invation was atempted witch would reach gaul and northern italy. The lombards destoryed many towns and villages. Leaving italy in ruins and taking severval villages. But could not take well fortified cities like Ravanna and Rome. Many tribes got angery witch united tribes along with the romans. They conforted the lombards in a vally in northern france. The romans won the battle witch was a turning point in the war. After that most of the battles were lombard defets and the armies of rome,ravanna and ostrogoth mercenaries drove out the lombards. Fulvianus lead a campian againist the lombards. This attack cripled the lombard econemy, sending the government into termoil. And by 762 the lombard kingdom collapes form lack of military contol. This war is compared to the punic wars in size and destruction.
During this period was a time of medium level of war. The empire recovers form the lombard war and emperor romanus helps rebuids war torn italy . But a another invasion is coming form the east. The arab had broken thougth the byzantine army and were hadding towards rome. The roman army halt their expansion again but many attacks happened after. The late 700s was an age of recovery and stability. With little conflict in the court and the senate. And the econemy was stable. The towns in the empire after the became more fortified and relided on nobles more and more and less on the governers. In order to became more centralized. Esepcialy germany were by 814 disolved governers in germany. Their were also an expansion of farming in gual, germany and italy. Witch lowered the price of wheat and other farm products. Many ostrogoth farms where destroyed and nobles bought their land to make villas. With these changes futalism grew about all over europe.
In 824 the empire experiance a huge baby boom. Their was a large growth of in the cities. Rome grew form over one and half million to about over two million. And cities and town sprouted all over italy and germany. By now Rome was consitered a continental power with a people more educated and helthy than people outside the empire. Another proplem came to the empire a sea fairing people call the vikings began raiding the costlines of gaul and germany and sank roman trade ships. This became a problem for the romans. So it is bagining the war againist piratcy and the first gaul costal war. The Declare of war againist the vikings was made by emperor Mark I the nepew of Romanus. This lead to many naval battles on the english channal and the gulf of Gual. Their was also land battles in where fougth in northern Gallia Lugdunensis. Most of these battle where victorys on the romans part. And as these raids got more common, Rome disided to send solders and mercenaries to villages and towns to protect them. These raids and battles lasted for 82 years. But the their were time during the war were viking settled the cost. And these settlements have lasted all the way to modern times. The emperor who won the war and drove the vikings out of gaul was emperor Constantius IV. Constantius was genrial who was apoved by the senate to be emperor. He used the entire army of ravanna to drive out their precents in normandy and ending the war againist piratcy. Thoa the viking settlements were still around even after the campian. And raids continued to but where
100 years after the campian, Constantius has died and a new invader has come. These people were called the magyers who have settled hungary. The romans have been dealing with them since 907 at the battle of pressburg where they were defeted. The magyers have been attacking them ever since. But would change at the battle of lechfeld in 955. Where a large army of German knights and roman solders. This army lead by emperor Honorus II, crushed the magyers and forced them to sign a treaty. After this victory the pope desided to add holy to the emperors title. Even know the emperor was considered the protecter of the papacy, but is now official. The empire remained in the same shape it was before. And the towns and cities had berily changed architecturely, but most grew. During the 1000s was a time of good trade with lots trade with their former enemy the viking and africa. Giving them much wealth. The senate now elects the emperor, due to the rule of Mark II which was one of much abuse. During the popes infulace over italy was esepcialy strong during this time, because of the weath of the church. In fact most people thougth that the pope was more powerful than the emperor. The sturgle would also affected the amount of the senate and the nobles, becuase this was also how centralized the government should be. This would lead to constat power sturgle between the six government bodies which would weaken the empire with time. Most of the Gual-German Praetorian prefecture was protected by Frankish and German knights. These knights most of time lead the Roman army their. Due to this power sturgle would make the knights to preoccupied to gurd gual leaving it unprotected. This would interst the normans. A sea fairing people disened form the viking and settled east england. In 1109 had invaded normendy, easily taken the costal towns. This is begining of The Second Terbulent Period of the empire.
The empire was in cheos, with six government bodies fighting eachother and invaders on both sides. This was the arabs time to attack and easy to take. It was also easy for the normens to take to, in fact by 1119 they had taken all of Gaul. And in 1121 forth and final wave started and took all of in 20 years. This Dramaged their econimy. The romans were still figthing invading tribe form eastern europe were attack but became hard and as time goes on. Many people fled to italy due to invaders attacking north africa and spain. And the roman way of life outside of italy begins to die out. The emperor at this time period were weak and began to relay on german nobles to help them rule. Emperor Augustus IV had disolved the old imperial government and replaced it with a more aristicratic government. The Roman Empire is now very similar in government to other kingdoms in europe. And had many aristicratic families, the most powerful was the Habsbergs who controled all of austria. They had much infulense over the imperial court. They became only more powerful with time. The empire also started becoming more loosely united and even more bureacratic then it was before. Due to the many aristicratic Families tangling with imperial administration. The other families powerful too and had a good amont of infulnce. For about 300 years the empire was under a series of weak emperors. They ran econamy irreasponible and ignored the aristicratic families and senate. The Families gained some of the powers of the emperor and made up most of the imperial adimastration. They would also became populur with people and became more liked than the emperor. This would to Charles X becoming emperor. He was apointed by the habsberg to be senator in rome. During his time as senator he clened up the city and the old auqaducts of rome. This would make him very populur and by peoples' choice became emperor. This was made official by the senate in 1503. And ended the second Terbulent period.
This was a great new age for the Roman Empire, the empire was under good hands. Technology was booming across italy, setting in the renaissence in Europe. And Charles marry into spanish royal family making him King of Spain. This is common amongist the Hasburgs. Then later bought a chunk of southern Italy
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