The End of the Roman Empire 339-343

1. The End of the Roman Empire339-343

2. Brain Pophttp://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/worldhistory/falloftheromanempire/

3. Listen to the brain pop and list 5-6 reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire

4. Fall of the Roman Empire(in the West) • Bad Leadership • Emperors after Augustus Caesar stopped listening to the Senate and started ruling single-handedly • Invasions from neighbors • 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 • 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.

5. A New Eastern Empirein 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.