Emperors often used religion as a tool to legitimize their authority and unify their subjects by presenting themselves as divinely appointed leaders. By aligning their rule with religious beliefs, they fostered loyalty and obedience among the populace, who viewed their governance as sanctioned by the divine. Additionally, state-sponsored religious institutions often reinforced the emperor's power, promoting social cohesion and discouraging dissent through the shared values and norms imposed by religious doctrine. This manipulation of religion helped maintain stability and control over diverse populations within empires.
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By way of the Concordat of 1801 which cost him nothing and gained him much favor with the French majority.
Emperors are like presidents because they are in control of at least some land and becaue they are on the same level.
it is based on belief that what is good for us must be good for everyone. ADDED: It was also a matter of control, in societies where the majority religion had or have a powerful say in affairs of state.
The Church was made an extra arm of Government by Constantine, and the emperors kept control and used the bishops as part of the government process, also merging the competing factions within within the eastern church to gain a state religion.
Yes the majority does have the right to control the majority. That is what government is. If there was no government control of anything, we'd have anarchy and the world would be a terrible place to live in.
Mecca always had a majority-Arab population, but for most of the 1500s-1918. the city was under Ottoman Turkish control.
The "Holy Land", basically reclaim all of Israel, Jordan, Thrace, and the majority of the Middle East in the name of the Christian religion of the Byzantines and the Papacy
By tolerating other religions since almost the beginning, the Islamic people were able to talk to other non-Islamic about religion. Some of these people might have then thought Islam was better than their religion and converted
When the Nazis conquered the large part of Europe, their territories incorporated the majority of the global Jewish population.
All Roman Emperors were famous in their own way. There were 192 people who claimed the title Emperor of Rome from 27 BC when the Emperor Augustus took control of the Senate until 1185 AD. Some of the later such would now be called Byzantine Emperors, but a the time they called themselves Roman Emperors. Second answer. Generally speaking most historians separate the ancient Roman empire and the Byzantine empire. The Byzantine empire lasted until 1453 AD when the Ottoman Turks took over Constantinople.
No Control - Bad Religion album - was created in 1989-06.