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The Fall of Rome
Life Sucks and Then Your Empire of 1000 Years Crumbles Before You in a Heap of
Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda’ves
Review
We’ve discussed the rise of Rome Romulus and Remus The Punic Wars
The unintentional Empire? The Republic The Fall of the Republic and rise of the Empire
Julius Caesar
Review Cont.
Culture and life The coliseum Adoption of Hellenistic culture
Not sure read about it because it is on the quiz
Leaders Good and bad Constantine
Review Con’t
Christianity It’s foundations Persecution It’s adoption by Constantine Council of Nicea
The Division of Rome
Diocletian Empire is getting to big to control Eastern Empire is under siege Divides Rome into two
Western Empire: Rome Eastern Empire: Constantinople
Hope to alleviate tensions and stresses on Empire
Not so much
Division Cont.
Eastern Empire begins to flourish Many from West move east to avoid infighting,
taxes, and poor economy Western Empire begins it’s decline
The Fall of Rome
Rome began in 750 BCE It ends in 476 CE
Vandals sack Rome that year and the Western Empire falls
WHY????
Corruption
By 400 CE the Western Empire had become corrupt Too many leaders
became power hungry The declining economy
and added taxes do not see advancements in Rome, but in officials pockets
The Senate and Leaders were bought and sold
Economy
Mother nature affects the economy Lands become baron Large ownership
pushes many off lands With increased
population in cities, less jobs
Added to all this was ever increasing taxes
Pay for repairs Military
Culture
By 400 CE the culture of Rome was not what it once was Lost was the grandeur
and replaced by decay Schools and arts are
under funded or not funded at all
Art is in decay Lack of innovation
produce a lack of expanding culture
Invasion
Barbarians from the north constantly pose a threat Army is maintained at a
high cost Begin to actually recruit
barbarians to fight barbarians
Where do loyalties lie? Military becomes over
expanded and incapable of maintaining borders
Fat and Lazy
Society becomes fat and lazy Recruit other to fight
wars Lack of attention paid to
the government Allows corruption to
run rampant Look for the easy life
rather than working hard like generations before
Society begins to fall apart
Eastern Empire Pull, Western Empire Push People leave West for East
The best and the brightest go east Leave West with any real chance of innovation
maintaining culture/society While West crumble the East actually expands
and gets extremely wealthy
Christianity
The rise and power of the Catholic church drastically changes Roman Society Though east is
catholic, the influence is minimal
More devotion to church than to Empire
Can you blame them?
The End
In 455 CE the Vandals from the north invade Crush through Italy and enter Rome Sack the city However allows churches to continue
476 CE Odoacer of German, but soldier of Rome kills last Western Emperor Western Empire Falls in 476 CE
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