The Decline of Rome The Late Empire, Its Challenges, and the Emperors that Pulled it Down.
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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– State religion– Imperial cult– Philosophical religions– Mystery religions
Rome (decline and fall)
• Christianity– As a mystery religion– Persecution• Why persecuted• Roman policy• Systematic persecution
– Success of Christianity• Why successful• Christianity and slavery
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)
Rome (decline and fall)
• Severan Dynasty– Septimius Severus (193-211)
– Caracalla (211-217)
– Macrinus (217-218)– Elagabalus (218-222)– Alexander Severus (222-235)
Rome (decline and fall)
• The crisis of the 3rd cent– Barracks emperors– The problems• Persia• Barbarians• Civil War• Economic breakdown
• Political crisis• Diocletian