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| 3 Background causes for fall of Rome | Economic weakness, Roman cities declined, Moral decay |
| Population declined, Military deteriorates, Political weakness | 3 Background causes for the fall of Rome |
| One reason why landowners were taxed heavily | to pay for army |
| One reason Rome's economy was weak | Devaluation of coinage |
| barter | to trade one good for another |
| ***inflation | Situation in which prices rise quickly while the value of money decreases |
| Reasons Rome's population declined | plagues, warfare, famine, declining birth rate |
| Widespread outbreak of disease | plague |
| Why population decline was important? | Fewer people to be taxed to run empire, To farm, so less food, To be soldiers to defend borders |
| Why Roman cities declined | Wealthy Romans fled to latifundia and became self supportive |
| This became center of life in Roman Empire | Farms/latifundia |
| Morale in Roman Empire's army | Discipline and patriotism declined |
| People recruited into Roman Army | mercenaries, barbarians |
| Germanic Tribes | barbarians |
| mercenaries | hired soldiers |
| Examples of Rome's moral decay | loss of faith in govt, decline of importance of family, Cruelty of games in Colosseum |
| Examples of Rome's political weakness | no established line of succession, emperors killed by generals and their armies, Govt designed for city-state, not empire |
| Emperor who split Roman empire into east and west | Diocletian |
| Emperor who moved capital to Byzantium | Constantine |
| New name for Rome's capital at Byzantium | Constantinople |
| This drew armies away from Rome's borders | political disorder in Rome |
| They attacked Rome's frontiers | Germanic tribes, Visigoths, Huns, Persians, Slavs, Avars |
| Led the Huns | Attila |
| Battle of Chalons | Romans and Visigoths combined to defeat Huns |
| Odoacer | Proclaimed himself King of Italy |
| Date of "Fall" of Western Roman Empire | 476 AD |
| Eastern Roman Empire | Lasted until 1453 as the Byzantine Empire |
