Rome Case

Christianity shifted the concentration of power from the aristocratic elites of Celsius's Rome to Abbots and Bishops of St. Martin through Gregory of Tours.

The class of elites changed hands from the aristocratic elites of Celsius Rome to concentrated power represented by Abbots and Bishops of St. Martin through Gregory of Tours.

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Political, Economical, Military Elites control Empire:

Political Elites/Senatorial Class dominated government at a national level.

Military leaders/Ambitious war leaders provide a more practical power to challenge the status quo. (King Makers)

Economic Elites such as wealthy curiatins, civic elites, >Senatorial bureaucratic holders

Lower class/uneducated/illiterate Christian groups

Christianity devolves the concentration of power of Roman Elites to the secular hands of Abbots and Bishops in former imperial province through the 2nd-6th centuries.

From the 2nd-6th century the Roman territories and territorial remnants were run by classes of elites. The empire and its provinces belonged to the political, military, and economic aristocrats who benefited most from state system. By the late 2nd century Christian sects jeopardize this system which the elites benefit from by self-aggrandizement and refusal of participation in cultural and religious rituals. The empire and system frayed by the 4th century and facilitated the accumulation of power into the hands of Christian elites centered in Roman provinces that became entrenched by the 6th century. Therefore Christianity shifted the concentration of power from the aristocratic elites of Celsius's Rome to Abbots and Bishops of St. Martin through Gregory of Tours.

Herodotus was born ca 484 BC. The latest references he makes in his Histories are to the beginning of the Peloponnesian War1, but we do not know his exact date of death.

The fact that he starts out his history with mythological accounts from the beginning of Greece and goes up to the Persian Wars means that Herodotus could not have been a reliable source of most of the events described in his book.

Even having dismissed the mythological part of the Histories, he was only a little boy at the time when the other (real) events took place and could not have remembered them well.

This means that he probably acquired his data from a third souce, e.g., the veterans of the Second Persian War. Even though we can expect this data to be quite accurate, it had most likely been altered in the minds of people who liked to preserve their glorious past.

On the contrary, Thucydides' work is based on events he had experienced himself. The main theme of his history is the Peloponnesian War, the war between Athens, Sparta and their allies