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Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart. All Roads Lead to R ome. What the roads did for Rome The good and the bad of the roads Roman Generals turn on each other and the idea of the Empire fails the people More money to army, less to roads, leads to bad roads, less trade, Empire grows weak Barbarians!.

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Things Fall Apart

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  1. Things Fall Apart

  2. All Roads Lead to Rome • What the roads did for Rome • The good and the bad of the roads • Roman Generals turn on each other and the idea of the Empire fails the people • More money to army, less to roads, leads to bad roads, less trade, Empire grows weak • Barbarians!

  3. People on the Move • Who were these Barbarians? • Angles • Saxons • lived in what is now Denmark

  4. The Barbadians! • Vandals and Goths • create vandalism in Rome • Ostrogoths • Visogoths

  5. More Barbarians! • The Huns • Asians who caused the most destruction • were amazing horsemen • Attila the Hun -attacked Romans and Tribes -shred throne with Brother Bleda, but Attila wanted the throne- what to do about that? -Brilliant and cruel leader • Romans and Visogoths team up to no avail • Attila heads to Rome and Pope Leo I ride out • Why did Attila leave?

  6. Attila meets with Pope Leo I

  7. The End of the Roman Empire • “Rome wasn’t built in a day” --what this means? • Odacer kills the emperor and 476 is the end of the Western Empire • Eastern lasts for another 100 years

  8. The Not So Dark Ages • The Empire falls in 476, what did that mean for the people? • Nothing • There was respect for the people, their way of life, and religion • Did people really care?

  9. Gradual Change • The roads get worse, no money to fix them • Local government, not central • Trade to the Mediterranean and Africa dies • Cities shrink • How people survived? • No records, no education, people forget skills

  10. The Dark Ages • Renaissance people coin the term “Dark Ages” • Why? • Was it as dark and violent as any other time? • Spreading out- • What happened to those Barbarian tribes?

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