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DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. Political Fragmentation. Diocletian 284 - 305 A.D. Divides the Empire – East and West. Political Fragmentation Cont’d. Constantine the Great 306-337 CE. Hagia Sophia. Political Fragmentation Cont’d. Christianity is official religion

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DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

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  1. DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

  2. Political Fragmentation Diocletian 284 - 305 A.D. Divides the Empire – East and West

  3. Political Fragmentation Cont’d Constantine the Great 306-337 CE Hagia Sophia

  4. Political Fragmentation Cont’d. • Christianity is official religion • Advocate of the Nicene Creed (325 CE) • Statement of Christian Faith by bishops in Nicaea • Banned pagan worship • Closed pagan temples • Abolished Olympic Games 393 CE Theodosius 379 - 395 A.D.

  5. Declining Population

  6. Plague and Pestilence The “Antoine Plague” 165 - 180 A.D. Mass grave at Gloucester

  7. Tax Revenue and Economy More Coins, more inflation Bread and circuses Farmers making olive oil in Pompeii

  8. The Roman Army • Political Corruption • Loss of discipline • Use of mercenaries

  9. Weak EmperorsBarbarian Generals General Stilicho – Tangled with the Visigoths under Alaric – ruling for Honorius Romulus Augustulus 475 – 476 A.D. 476 CE Odoacer (Visigothic general) deposes last emperor Romulus Augustulus End of Western Rome Alaric, King of the Visigoths, sacks Rome in 410 CE Honorius – emperor at age 10 (395-423 CE)

  10. Barbarians Germanic Peoples Visigoths, Saxons, Franks, Alammani, Burgundians, Vandals, Goths Huns invade Rome 451CE under Attila Sassanid Empire (Persians) Theodoric the Great 493-526 CE First Gothic King of Rome

  11. Barbarian Invasions

  12. Former Roman Empire 526 CE

  13. Legacies • Christianity • Architecture and Technology • Law and Government • Language • Art, Literature, Philosophy Icon of the Archangel Michael on enamel • Eastern Empire continues as Byzantium until 1453 • Preserves Greco-Roman knowledge

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