Rome Fades Away/ End of an Era

Rome Fades Away

• Two emperors
• Diocletian
• he rules from 284-303
• its cool to persecute Christians
• Rome needs a big army(400,00 strong)
• Rome needs a big government(20,000 officials)
• Constantine
• Rules from 306-337
• its cool to be a christian
• conversion to Christianity
• via a cross in the sky(conquer by this)
• 313- his Edict of Milan proclaims freedom of worship
• built a new capital in the East
• Byzantium, soon to be known as Constantinople
• the struggle of the peasants
• life in the fourth century
• country dwellers are getting bankrupted by endless tax collection
• new farming systems; peasants work for elite landlords on large farms
• peasants can avoid paying taxes, but they are getting hit just as hard by the landlords
• paying off debts and being "allowed" to live on the land, in exchange for endless back breaking work( such a deal)
• landowners hold local power as counts and bishops, wielding more real power than the faraway empire
• fore shading feudalism= a system wear you have someone that controls a small area and you work like crazy for the lord of the manor
• The western Empire crumbles
• Rome's power is decreasing, while nomadic barbarians gain power
• western Empire is too poor, begins to be neglected
• Huns migrate from China to eastern Europe
• Visigoths take over Spain, and actually capture and loot Rome itself in 410
• Vandals control Carthage and the western Mediterranean
• Other barbarian tribes
• Ostrogoth in Italy
• Franks in Gaul
• Angles and Saxons in Britain
• end of an era
• from the beginnings...
• 500 BC- the monarchy is abolished
• 450 BC- the Twelve tables are established
• ...Through the glory days...
• 44 BC- end of the line for Julius Caesar
• 27 BC- 180 BC- the Roman Peace( Pax Romana)
• To the bitter end... 
• constant fifth century invasions by barbarian tribes left the western Roman empire shattered and crumbling
• the last emperor was a teenage boy installed in 475 by his father
• barbarians deposed Romulus Augustus without bothering to kill him
• 476 was the last empire for the western Roman empire
• There is still an eastern Roman empire but Rome and the western part is done
• Barbarians conquer
• Angels= England
• Saxons= conquered Germany
• Ostrogoth= Italy
• Huns= Came from China and they conquered Hungary
• Vandals=  North Africa/Carthage and went and conquered Rome
• Visigoths= Spain and Portugal 
• franks=
  • -Germanic Tribe that became the French
  • -They conquered Gaul-Gaul is now present day France, Luxembourg and Belgium - Mostly Switzerland, Northern Italy and parts of the Netherlands and Germany-They were the most powerful of the Germanic Tribes-They created a strong barbarian kingdom after the end of the Western Roman Empire
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