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Rome The empire: decline and fall

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Page 1: Rome The empire: decline and fall. Rome (decline and fall) Summary of Roman empire up to 180ad Pax Romana – What it did for the economy of Rome Religion.

Rome

The empire: decline and fall

Page 2: Rome The empire: decline and fall. Rome (decline and fall) Summary of Roman empire up to 180ad Pax Romana – What it did for the economy of Rome Religion.

Rome (decline and fall)

• Summary of Roman empire up to 180ad• Pax Romana– What it did for the economy of Rome

• Religion– State religion– Imperial cult– Philosophical religions– Mystery religions

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Rome (decline and fall)

• Christianity– As a mystery religion– Persecution• Why persecuted• Roman policy• Systematic persecution

– Success of Christianity• Why successful• Christianity and slavery

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Rome (decline and fall)

• From the Antonines to the Severans• 180ad: 2nd century warning signs– Roman society– The Army

• Commodus and the end of the Antonines (180-193)

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Rome (decline and fall)

• Severan Dynasty– Septimius Severus (193-211)

– Caracalla (211-217)

– Macrinus (217-218)– Elagabalus (218-222)– Alexander Severus (222-235)

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Rome (decline and fall)

• The crisis of the 3rd cent– Barracks emperors– The problems• Persia• Barbarians• Civil War• Economic breakdown

• Political crisis• Diocletian