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Christianity and the Fall of Rome
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Divides the Empire – East and West
Diocletian284 - 305 A.D.
Political Fragmentation Political Fragmentation Cont’dCont’d
Constantine the Great 306-337 CE
Hagia Sophia
Political Fragmentation Political Fragmentation Cont’d.Cont’d.
Theodosius379 - 395 A.D.
•Christianity is official religion
•Advocate of the Nicene Creed (325 CE)
•Statement of Christian Faith by bishops in Nicaea
Click here to go to an English Version of the Nicene Creed
•Banned pagan worship
•Closed pagan temples
•Abolished Olympic Games 393 CE
Mass grave at Gloucester
The “Antoine Plague”165 - 180 A.D.
Farmers making olive oil in Pompeii
More Coins, more inflation
Bread and circuses
•Political Corruption
•Loss of discipline
•Use of mercenaries
Weak EmperorsWeak EmperorsBarbarian GeneralsBarbarian Generals
Romulus Augustulus
475 – 476 A.D.
General Stilicho – Tangled with the Visigoths under Alaric – ruling for Honorius
Honorius – emperor at age 10 (395-423 CE)
Alaric, King of the Visigoths, sacks Rome in 410 CE
476 CE Odoacer (Visigothic general) deposes last emperor Romulus Augustulus
End of Western Rome
Germanic PeoplesVisigoths, Saxons, Franks, Alammani, Burgundians, Vandals, Goths
Sassanid Empire (Persians)
Huns invade Rome 451CE under Attila
Theodoric the Great 493-526 CE
First Gothic King of Rome
Former Roman Empire 526 CE
LegaciesLegacies
► ChristianityChristianity
► Architecture and Architecture and TechnologyTechnology
► Law and GovernmentLaw and Government
► LanguageLanguage
► Art, Literature, PhilosophyArt, Literature, Philosophy
•Eastern Empire continues as Byzantium until 1453
•Preserves Greco-Roman knowledge
Icon of the Archangel Michael on enamel