| A | B |
|---|
| Colosseum | a stadium where Romans watched gladiators and animal fights |
| Byzantine Empire | the Eastern Roman Empire |
| Constantinople | capital of the Byzantine Empire |
| Justinian | famous emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire |
| barbarians | different groups of people who conquered the Western Roman Empire |
| why the Byzantine Empire was important | it brought 1000 years of learning and culture to Eastern Europe |
| he tried to unite the lands and made good laws | why Justinian was such a great leader |
| the reason why the emperors were not good | they did not make good laws |
| a reason why the army did not have enough good soldiers | the soldiers were from conquered lands and did not care about Rome |
| a reason why poor people could not get jobs | slaves were doing most of the work |
| why Rome needed money | to afford its huge army, to build cities and roads |
| why Rome did not have enough money | not enough Romans had jobs, slaves did not pay taxes |
| why the Roman Empire was hard to rule | very large empire where people spoke different languages and lived far away |
| results of the Fall of Rome | many hard years for people who lived in the western part of the empire |
| how the Roman Empire became divided | two parts: the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire |
| A.D. 180 | the year the Roman Empire began to grow weaker |
| A.D. 476 | the year the Roman Empire fell apart |
| A.D. 1453 | the year the Byzantine Empire fell apart |
