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Fall of the Roman Empire Reasons for the Fall I. First great history book was _______________________________ written by _________________________________ a. Claimed the reason Rome fell was because of _____________________________ b. Main argument: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ II. Other Arguments why Rome fell a. Slavery i. _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ b. Invasion i. _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ c. Corruption i. _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ d. Invasion i. _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ e. Insanity i. _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ Problems facing Empire I. Death of Commodus a. Commodus wastes Roman money on __________________________________________ b. Killed by his ___________________________ who was hired by ___________________________ c. Left Empire facing many problems II. Civil War a. After Commodus’ death, Rome ruled by a series of _______________________ i. Definition: _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ b. Rome Experiences __________________ Emperors in _______________ years c. Left __________________ in the Roman borders as generals fought one another III. Size a. Roman Emperor had become too large to rule from a single city b. Problems with corrupt or rebellious ___________________________ c. Unable to ________________________________________________ d. Civil wars left Rome with ___________________________________ IV. The Money a. Too much of the coinage was being ___________________ i. Definition: _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ ii. Allowed Rome to ______________________________ but drastically ________________________________________________________ iii. Allowed barracks emperors to quickly _______________________________ V. Barbarians a. Tribes from _______________ and _____________________ invading Roman territory b. Military too weak to stop it Attempts at Reform I. Emperor Diocletian a. Assumed control after halting barbarian invasion at the battle of ___________________ b. Attempted to solve 2 problems simultaneously i. ___________________ ii. ___________________ c. Made his assistant __________________ into a ____________________________ d. Gave him control of _______________________ and moved his capital to _______________________ in ________________________________ e. Divided military into a ______________________ i. Definition: _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ f. Great Persecution i. Diocletian targeted ____________________ to be tortured or killed ii. Feared them because ___________________________________ iii. Blamed ______________________________on Christians iv. Burned ______________________________________ v. Punishments were so harsh that _________________________________________________________________ Emperor Constantine I. Constantine takes over after Diocletian _____________________________________ a. Definition: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ b. Oldest of Diocletian’s sons II. Finalized Diocletian’s reforms by ___________________________________________ a. Takes control of Byzantium and renames it _______________________________ b. Gives control of Rome to ____________________________________ III. Why Constantinople? a. Strategic: __________________________________________________________ b. Wealthy: __________________________________________________________ c. Safe: __________________________________________________________________ IV. Constantine’s conversion V. 313, Edict of Milan: Constantine declares that Christians can follow faith without fear of _________________________________ VI. Constantine then ___________________________________ a. Claims he saw __________________________________________ b. Real reason more likely his _______________________________________________ VII. Council of Nicea a. Problem: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ b. Constantine calls church leaders to Nicea: i. Leaders decide on a single ____________________________ ii. Declares all other writings _____________________________ iii. Breaks Christianity from Jewish traditions such as _______________________ iv. Declares _______________________________ to be leader of Church VIII. Military Collapse a. Much of Roman military moved to _______________________________b. Rome left to hire ____________________________ i. Definition: _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ The Barbarians I. Barbarian comes from the _____________________ language a. Means: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ b. To the Romans, Barbarian meant: ________________________________________________________________________ II. The Huns a. Originally come from _________________________________ b. United by a war chief called a __________________________ i. Greatest of these was _________________________ c. The Huns were the masters of the ______________________ d. They were masters of the _____________________________ i. Developed ___________________ which allowed them to ______________________________________________________________ e. Typically Huns would ride into battle with ___________________________________ i. Switch mid-battle when they ran out of arrows or spears f. By _______________ the Huns had devastated __________________________________ g. Threatened Empire because ________________________________________________________________________ _ h. Huns eventually collapse into __________________________ between _______________________________________ III. The Goths a. ____________________ tribes from _________________________________ b. Several different tribes that included the __________________________, the _____________________________ and the _______________________________ c. Pushed out of territory by the _________________________ d. Invaded Roman Territory i. Took control of ______________________ and _________________________ IV. The Franks a. Group of Germanic tribes that invaded ________________________ b. Take territory without a fight c. Rome acknowledges Frankish Kingdom in ________________________ d. Franks build ______________________ to protect their territory The Sack of Rome I. Last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire was ______________________________ II. Placed on the throne by his _____________________________ III. Rome invaded by ________________ led by ___________________ in __________________ IV. Last Emperor replaced by ______________ who declares himself __________________