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Fall Of Rome
Fall of Rome:
 Problems: Map pg 161
 Loss of loyalty to empire/ emperor
 Wasted $, $ flowing out of empire through trade
 Civil war for power- armies fight each other, rich vs.
poor, political offices a burden, corruption
 Borders overrun, trade not safe, business collapses,
agriculture problems, drought- ruins economy
376- 476 AD
Germanic tribes pour into Roman territory,
overwhelming Roman control. Many in flight
from the ruthless Mongol invaders from the
east, The Huns
410 Germanic tribe- Visigoths- attacks Rome and
defeats it
450’s Attacks by the Huns and Germanic tribes
Territory broken up
476 Last Roman Emperor overthrown.
Fall Of Rome
Results of Germanic
Invasion
400’s Germanic Tribes overrun Europe
 Disruption of Trade- business collapses, money is
scarce
 Population shift- people are run out of the cities,
subsistence farming (population chart pg 317)
 Decline in learning- no schools, no reading or writing,
no speaking Greek
 Language changes- Latin splits into other languagesFrench, Spanish, Italian emerge
400-600
Small Germanic kingdoms arise- everchanging
borders
 Loyalty to family and community- not to state/empire
 Germanic cultural stress on personal ties make
empire impossible
496-600
Clovis- Frankish King converts to ChristianityChurch supports him and his military campaignsmissionaries sent out- many Germanic peoples
converted – controls most of modern day France
732 Battle of Tours- Frankish King (France) Defeats Muslim
army and stops expansion into Europe
Monasteries and Convents Religious communities- Men and women who gave life to
serving God
 Became centers of learning- opened schools, maintained
libraries, copied books, wrote history
Role of the Pope590 Spiritual head also has political power
 Center of Rome’s govt (city)
 Negotiates peace treaties
 Uses church $ to raise armies, repair roads, build
buildings and help the poor
Meanwhile: Byzantine
(pg267)
The eastern empire under the name Byzantine is flourishing 330
Constantine moves seat of power east to Constantinoplebuilds mighty capital
533 Justianian- recaptures much of previous Rome- Italy,
North Africa, some of Spain.
 Spoke Greek not Latin
 Eastern Orthodox church develops separate from the western
Catholicism
 Justianian Code- 5000 laws complied from Rome
 Education is preserved- children go to monastic schools, public
schools, or have tutors. Study Greek, Latin, History, Art and
Literature
 Problems within- Plague, continuous military attacks
550’s- 1300’s
Continuous military attacks from all sides-
 Early on- Avars, Slavs, and Bulgars in the North, Lombards in the
west, Persians on the east,
 Later- Russians from North, Turks and Arabs from the east.
1350 Controls only the tip of Anatolia
1453 Constantinople falls to the Turks
Byzantine Empire
Meanwhile - Russia
(map pg
275)
800’s- 1000’s
 North of the Byzantine empire- inhabited by
Slavic tribes of farmers and traders- People
from north (probably Vikings) came and settled
(mixed with population)
 Kiev- becomes Principality (small area ruled by
a prince) becomes major trading route with
Constantinople, Kiev converts to Eastern
Orthodox Christianity
Meanwhile- Islam emerges
613
Muhammad preaches publicly in Mecca- gets run out
gathers following in Medina (pg 241)
 Monotheism- Allah (same God of Jews/Christians)
 He was the last of the prophets
 Jesus was a prophet
 Good and evil exist, live morally
 Quaran/ Koran- final holy book
 5 duties- faith, prayer, fasting, alms, pilgrimage
630 Returns to Mecca with following 10,000. Mecca
surrenders
many convert
632 Muhammad dies- New Leader elected- Caliphbecomes head of military
Shite/ Sunni split over who should be Caliph
634 Controls all of Arabia
750 Conquest continues- Controls North Africa, Spain, middle
east, southwest Asia (map of page 241)
Legacies Huge trade network- Mediterranean sea and Indian ocean
 Common language- Arabic,
 Common currency- dinar
 Creation of banks, credit, issuing of sakk (check)
 Immense achievements in arts and sciences
 Collection of poets, philosophers, scientists, doctors
 Rise of cities
Islam