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The End of the Roman Empire 339-343 Brain Pop http://www.brainpop.com/socialstud ies/worldhistory/falloftheromanempi re/ Listen to the brain pop and list 5-6 reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire Fall of the Roman Empire (in the West) 1. Bad Leadership • 2. Emperors after Augustus Caesar stopped listening to the Senate and started ruling singlehandedly Invasions from neighbors • • • • 3. Generals fighting each other Army guarding borders but getting weak and small in number Germanic tribes coming invading Roman boarders Huns, Goths Vandal, Franks… Financial Problems • • 4. 5. Value of Roman Money Decreasing Values and morals (stealing, bribing, etc) Food Shortages, Unemployment, Riots, Crime and other Civil Unrest Empire Size and Splitting of the empire • • • • • Diocletian The East and The West Constantine Constantinople Byzantine Empire Population decreased, schools closed, taxes and prices soared, leaving Romans poor and the empire slowly collapsed. A New Eastern Empire in Constantinople • Even though the Roman Empire in the West was falling, the Byzantine Empire in the East was thriving. • Diocletian left the empire to Constantine, who moved the capital and renamed it Constantinople. • Justinian became Emperor after Constantine. Justinian had a wife named Theodora. – Retake the old Roman Empire – Law (Justinian’s Code) – Church (spoke Greek not Latin and though Christian it was referred to as Eastern Orthodox Christianity) – After Justinian’s death, the Eastern Empire begin to decline and is eventually taken over by the Ottoman Turks.