Today we went over a power point. Here are some of my notes:
- Diocletian rules from 284-303
- He thinks its cool to persecute Christians.
- Rome needs a big army (400,000 strong)
- Rome needs a big government (20,000 officials)
- Constantine rules from 306-337.
- Thinks its cool to be a Christian.
- he converts to Christianity.
- 313- his Edict of Milan proclaims freedom of worship.
- Built a new capital in the East, Byzantine soon to be known as Constantinople.
- country dwellers are getting bankrupt by endless tan collection.
- New farming system: peasant work for elite landlords on large farms.
- Peasants can avoid paying taxes, but they are getting hit just as hard by the landlords.
- Paying off debt and being "allowed" to live on the land, in exchange for endless back-breaking work.(such a deal.)
- Landowners can hold local power as counts and bishops, wielding more real power than a faraway empire.
- Foreshadowing feudalism.
- Romes power is decreasing, while nomadic barbarians gain power.
- Western empire is too poor, begins to be neglected.
- Huns migrate from China to eastern Europe.
- Visigoths take over Spain, and actually capture and loot Rome its self in 410.
- Vandals control Carthage and the western Mediterranean.
- From the beginnings...
- 500 B.C- the monarchy was established.
- 450 B.C- the Twelve Tables are established.
- .....Through the glory days
- 44 B.C- end of the line for Julius Caesar.
- 27 B.C-180 A.D- The Roman Peace (Pax Romana)
- to the bitter end...
- constant fifth century invasions by barbarian tribes left the western Roman Empire shattered and crumbling.
- the last emperor was a teenage boy installed in 475 by his father.
- Barbarians deposed Romulus Augustalus without bothering to kill him.
- 476- last emperor is gone. (THE END)
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