WebCareer. The eldest son of Constantine the Great and Fausta, Constantine II was born in Arles in February 316 and raised as a Christian.. Caesar. On 1 March 317, he was made Caesar. In 323, at the age of seven, he took part in his father's campaign against the Sarmatians. At age ten, he became commander of Gaul, following the death of his half …

WebHistory. Currencies in use before the current Peruvian sol include: The Spanish colonial real from the 16th to 19th centuries, with 8 reales equal to 1 peso.; The Peruvian real from 1822-1863. Initially worth 1 ⁄ 8 peso, reales worth 1 ⁄ 10 peso were introduced in 1858 in their transition to a decimal currency system.; The sol or sol de oro from 1863-1985, at 1 sol = …

WebValens (Greek: Ουάλης, translit. Ouálēs; 328 – 9 August 378) was Roman emperor from 364 to 378. He was the younger brother of the emperor Valentinian I, who gave Valens the eastern half of the Roman Empire to rule. Before 364, Valens had a largely unremarkable military career. In 378, Valens was defeated and killed at the Battle of Adrianople against …

WebCarolingian art spans the roughly hundred-year period from about 800–900. Although brief, it was an influential period. Northern Europe embraced classical Mediterranean Roman art forms for the first time, setting the stage for the rise of Romanesque art and eventually Gothic art in the West. Illuminated manuscripts, metalwork, small-scale sculpture, …