Transcript The Decline of the Roman Empire

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Essential Questions
The Decline of the Roman Empire
Government
 Leaders fought each other
 Many leaders took bribes
 Talented people refused to be part of the corrupt
government’
 Law and order broke down
Social Issues
 The plague killed 1/10 people
 Famine
 slavery
 Few Romans honored the old ideals of –duty, honor
and courage
Economic Problems
 Many rich stopped paying their taxes
 Soldiers seized farms
 People couldn’t afford to buy goods
 Inflation-money loses value
 Many people began to barter
Military problems
 Many workers who lost their jobs joined the military
 Fighting in the Empire increased and government
couldn’t pay its soldiers
Empire was to large to defend
The Roman Empire Divides
 Diocletian-emperor who tried various reforms (political changes)
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Divided the empire into 4 parts
Set prices and wages
People must have the same job until they died-stability
People ignored the rules
 Constantine- people must keep the same career as their father
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Changed capital of the empire to Byzantium
(Constantinople)
First emperor to endorse Christianity
The Empire Divides
EAST
WEST
 Rome
 Roman Catholic
Church
 Falls by 476 A.D.
Constantinople-“New Rome”
 Greek Orthodox Church
 Lots of Trade-$
 Great Location
Influenced by Greek ideas
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Accomplishments of…Emperor
Justinian and his wife Theodora
 more land
 -women’s rights
 -Justinian Code of laws
passed on Greek/ Roman ideas
Invasions
 Who -Germanic tribes (Visigoths, Huns, Vandals)
 Why- Better weather, grazing lands, Money, culture
 Where- From the North eventually attacked Rome
 When-Visigoths-410 A.D. Vandals-455 A.D.
 What- First time Rome was conquered in 800 years
 Romulus Augustus was Rome’s last emperor
Invasions Of Rome
Closure
 Please list one social political, economic and military
reason for the fall of the Roman Empire
 Name the capitals of the Eastern and Western
Roman Empire
 Please name one group that invaded Rome