Constantine founded Constantinople.
<em>The factors that caused Rome to plunge into civil wars and weakened the Republic were:
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<u>Power and control</u>. Powerful Roman families desired to gain control at any cost. Assassinations were the order of the day. There were some Roman Emperors that lasted very few ruling the Empire. It debilitated the social structure of Rome.
<u>Ambition</u>. The Roman Empire was so ambitious. Its hunger for more territories made them always be involved in conquering wars. The Empire expansion reached so far Rome that in those far away places the Empire could not sustain its armies and their presence.
<u>Egotism</u>. Roman soldiers were more loyal to their commanders than the same Empire. This means that loyalty was to the person, the leader, more than Rome. Battles among troops started and this debilitated the Roma army.
<u>Killing</u>. Those differences and political control generated wars among the Romans and many people were killed.
<u>Patricians land</u>. There was a Land legislation to take land from the Patricians to give it to the Military men after sixteen years of service in the Roman Army. This was one of the reasons for the civil war.
The correct answer is: D) Over one million people were persecuted and killed.
The Armenian Genocide took place in the Ottoman Empire from srping 1915 through autumn 1916 under the Young Turk government. It refers to the deportation and mass killing campaign against the Armenians living there. It is estimated that aproximately 1.5 million Armenians populated that region before the genocide, at least 664,00, to 1.2 million were killed. It is important to say that the main objective of the government was to destroy the whole armenian population, that is the reason it is called a genocide.
Some survivors reached the desert of Syria living in concentration camps starving to death and being massacred until 1916.
