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Fall of the Roman Empire
• Decline of the Roman Empire • End of the Pax Romana, two centuries of peace and
prosperity for the Roman Empire
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Rome’s Economy Weakens • Hostile tribes were on the
boundaries of the empire, and Mediterranean pirates disrupted trade
• Rome lacked the financial resources to stop the attacks
• Rome raised taxes and coined more money
• As a result of these activities, Rome suffered from inflation, a drastic drop in the value of its money
• Agricultural production within the empire declined, and food shortages and disease spread
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Military and Political
• The military was in disarray - soldiers had lost loyalty to Rome
• Roman government began the use of mercenaries, or foreign soldiers who for fought for money and had little sense of loyalty to the empire
• Roman citizens became indifferent about the empire’s fate
• More slaves and none-citizens in Rome than citizens
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Empire Divided • In 284 AD Diocletia
became the emperor • Restored order and
increased the military’s strength
• Split the empire into East and West
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Constantine Moves the Capitol
• Constantine gained control of the western part of the empire in 312 AD
• Moved the capitol from Rome to Byzantium (later Constantinople, present day Istanbul, Turkey )
• The center of power shifted from Rome to The East
• The divide of the Eastern and Western Empires led to the decline of the West
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Attila the Hun• Huns united under leader Attila
and attacked Roman cities throughout The East but did not capture Constantinople
• 452 AD Attila’s forces moved towards Rome but failed to take it
• the Germanic invasion continued • last Roman Emperor, Romulus
Augustulus, ousted by Germanic forces in 476 AD
• the western half of the Roman Empire disappeared
• the Eastern half of the Roman Empire, which came to be called the Byzantine Empire, flourished another 1,000 years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453
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Germanic Tribes• Germanic peoples were
overrun by Mongol nomads from Central Asia – the Huns
• Germanic people flooded into Roman areas fleeing the Huns
• The Roman army was unable to stop the march of the Germanic peoples or “barbarians”
• In 410 AD hordes of Germanic tribes over-run, sack, and plunder Rome for days Sack of Rome