| A | B |
|---|
| spoils | goods taken in war |
| Fall of the empire | 410 fall at 410 by Andius of the Goths, 487 it falls for good |
| 3rd centaury problems and causes of fall | deteriorating economy and infastructure, decay from plauge, crim, lack of good leaders, minor barbarian invaisionsbreakdown of militarty discipline (spoils), recall of boarder troops |
| Diocletian | strong authoritarian rule, orders farmers to stay on land, raises taxes enormously, binds workers to follow their parent's jobs |
| the great divide | diocletian divides rome into 2 parts in 285 AD trying to stablize the empire |
| Eastern Rome | Trade and Weath |
| Western Rome | Barbarian attakcs, has to supply it's own army ruled by Goths |
| Visigoths and Rome | They want in Rome to get farm lands and to get away from the huns. IN 378 Visigoths are granted assylum and then 2 years later backstab rome. in 278 at the battle of Adrianopal they win. IN 410 they loot rome, make peace and leave. |
| Huns and Rome | The huns Threaten western Rome. Attila holds the huns together, only thing doing so. Rome and the Goths band together and beat Attila and the Huns. This is after the huns invade italy and attila dies. |
| Vandles and Rome | Invade from the north, take over some land. |
| order of falling | 410:battle of Adrianopal, 378-410 The Visigoths, 410: Alaric, 451-453:Huns, 455: Vandles, 476: Odacer, 493: theodoric. ROME BLED TO DEATH |
| Army changes | They intagrate Germanic tribes into the army, Then they over throw Western Rome for good in 476 and choose Odacer as their leader |
| Reasons for decline | Weakened army make up of barbarians, merceraneries and urban ppl. Smaller population, oppressive Government: forced labor, tyrents, Decline of farms and cities (early feudilism) Stagnent economy,loss of confidence/tradition ROME BLED TO DEATH |
| vernacular | local languge |
| Evangelists | M2 L J |
| Paul | He starts missionaries |
| Rome + Christianity | Good raods enabled christianity to spred |
| Rome burns | 64 AD rome burns to ground, Nero blames christians. Starts persecutions of Christians, they never become serious. |
| Catacombs | Underground tombs, Churches would be down there |
| Martyerism | Willing to die for a cause |
| Constantine (312) | Beomces a christian when he is emperor and in 313 makes the edict of milan making it legal to be a christian |
| Reuse | Old Basillicas are made into churches |
| Theodosius' rule | Christianity is turned into Rome's only religion |
| Augustine | one of the "father's fo the church" Bishop of Hippo (laf!), Hes black, Writes book in 410 called "City of god" and its an apology |
| Roman Religion | Gods wanted respect, not interested in the good of people,Complex cerimonies, changes in nature are from the gods, No moral code, no emotional warmth, no afterlife |
| Christians | God offers love, compassion and caring personal life, after life, moral code, monotheistic |
