HEGEMON IN THE MAKING

THE BIRTH AND GROWTH OF THE WESTERN ELITE POLITICAL CLASS—From Celtic to Roman to Anglo-Saxon/Germanic

By: Janvier T. Chando, Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

HEGEMON IN THE MAKING is the first part of the account of the hegemons that shaped the Western World, a thousand-year story per se about ancient Rome and the nature of its world. This involves the empires it fought against, the lands and people it conquered, the “Barbarian” invasions it defeated and failed to stop, and the influence it exerted in Europe, Africa, and East Asia (The Middle East), making it the target of other powerful forces determined to bring it down while cherishing its civilization, the positive attributes that constitute the bedrock of Western civilization today which hegemons of Germanic roots that are the heirs of ancient Rome and its offshoots are championing.

Janvier T. Chando’s account leads the reader hand-in-hand through the good, bad, ugly, and legendary emperors and rulers who shaped that era of antiquity in Europe, putting the spotlight now and then on bigger-than-life figures such as the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus who as an outstanding military strategist defeated the greatest Carthaginian war hero Hannibal; the author introduces us to some of the renowned Roman leaders like Julius Caesar, Pompey, Alexander Severus, Aurelian, and Gratian who were assassinated; and he opens the door to the splendid legacies of other larger than life Roman rulers like Augustus Caeser, Tiberius, Diocletian, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, Vespasian, Hadrian, Justinian I, Theodosius I, and Constantine The Great. Even inglorious emperors such as Nero, Caligula, and Elagabalus received the same fair presentation as Julian the Apostate and the other usurpers who undermined the stability of the Roman Empire and led to its dismemberment in the West.

Equally thrilling is the spotlight on some of the heroic Barbarian characters who contributed to Rome’s demise such as Attila the Hun, the Gothic leaders Fritigern, Alaric, and Theodoric, as well as the Frankish kings Theudemer, Chlodio and Merovech, all of whom paved the way for the establishment of Germanic kingdoms on what was the Western half of the Roman Empire, and provided us with a better understanding of the Roman world, the Germanic domination that followed the empire’s collapse in the West, and of that era and area of classical antiquity.

This action-packed account serves as a smooth introduction to the second book (THE HEGEMON AND THE CONSOLIDATION), which dwells on the Medieval Period that transitioned into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery (Modern Period) when Europe and its offshoots dominated the world.