Dioclecian
284-303
Rome needs a big
army
Rome needs a big
government
Constantine
306 - 337
Cool to be a
christian
313 - Edict of Milan
Byzantium- changer
to Constantinople
The Struggle
Country dwellers are
getting bankrupt by taxes
New farming system:
peasants work for elite landlords
Peasants can avoid
taxes, but they are getting hit just as hard by the landlords
Paying off debts and
being "allowed" to live on the land, in exchange for endless
back-breaking work
Landowners hold
local power as counts and bishops, wielding more real power than faraway empire
Foreshadowing
feudalism
Western Empire
Rome's poer is
decreasing
Barbarians gain
Western Empire is
too poor
Huns migrate from
China and take Roman empire
Vicigoths take spain
and actually capture and loot Rome
Vandals control
Carthage and western Mediterranean
Other Barbarian
tribes:
Ostrogoth's
Franks
Angels
End of an Era
From the beginning
500BC monarchy is
abolished
450 bc twelve Tables
Through the glory
days
44 BB end of the
line for Julius Caesar
27 BC - 180 AD - Pax
Romana
To the bitter end
Constant fifth
century invasions by barbarians tribes left the western Roman Empire
The last emperor was
a teenage boy installed in 475 by his father
Barbarians desposed
of Romulus Augustus without bothering to kill him
476 - last emperor
gone
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