List of wars and disasters by death toll - Earthquake. 830,000 - Shaanxi earthquake (China, 1556) 286,000 - Indian Ocean earthquake & tsunamis (outside Indonesia, 2004) 242,000 - Tangshan earthquake (China, 1976) 230,000 - Aleppo earthquake (Syria, 1138) 200,000 - Gansu earthquake (China, 1920) 200,000 - Xining earthquake (China, 1927) 200,000 - Damghan earthquake (Iran, 856) 150,000 - Ardabil earthquake (Iran, 893) 140,000 - Great ...

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Constantine respected cultivation and Christianity, and his court was composed of older, respected, and honored men. Leading Roman families that refused Christianity were denied positions of power, yet two-thirds of his top government was non-Christian. (MacMullen 1969,1984, New Catholic Encyclopedia 1908) "From Pagan temples Constantine had his statue removed. The repair of Pagan temples that had decayed was forbidden. These funds were given to the favored Christian clergy. Offensive forms of worship, either Christian or Pagan ...

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Constantine's laws in many ways improved those of his predecessors, though they also reflect his more violent age. Some examples: For the first time, girls could not be abducted. A punishment of death was mandated to anyone collecting taxes over the authorized amount. A prisoner was no longer to be kept in total darkness, but must be given the outdoors and daylight. A condemned man was allowed to die in the arena, but he could not be branded on his "heavenly beautified" face, just on the feet.

In Medieval and Modern Spain, the Visigoths were thought to be the origin of the Spanish nobility (compare Gobineau for a similar French idea). Somebody acting with arrogance would be said to be "haciéndose de los godos" ("making himself to come from the Goths"). Because of this, in Chile, Argentina and the Canary Islands, godo is an ethnic slur used against European Spaniards, who in the early colony ...

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