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The End of the Roman Empire
339-343
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reasons for the fall of the Roman
Empire
Fall of the Roman Empire
(in the West)
1.
Bad Leadership
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2.
Emperors after Augustus Caesar stopped listening to the Senate and started ruling singlehandedly
Invasions from neighbors
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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
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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
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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.