Objective:

Rome falls in quick rotation

Were you successful?? Category Problem Solution

Political

Military

Social

Economic

•Germanic tribes Invade crops and destroy

fields

•Persia push into Eastern Rome

•Army can’t pay the soldiers

•Use German soldiers – not loyal

•Army fought over leadership

•Corrupt politicians that take bribes

•Many talented stop taking part in government.

•Less Crops = Hunger

•Businesses closed – unemployment

•Inflation because less taxes were paid

•Less gold in coins – higher prices therefore bartering

without money

•Fewer people went to school

•Large number were enslaved

•Farmers grew less food

•The Plague

Putting your knowledge to work!

What do you believe was the worst problem that

the Romans had to face? Economic, Political,

Military, or Social….Explain your answer!

How would you fix it!

ROME FALLS

The end of the mighty Empire!

Station of Rome…

but Mrs. Stryjak

they aren’t in

order….

Speed

dating

style!!!

Quick…

Quick…

Quick!!

Diocletian AD 284-305

Soldier that became an emperor

Divided the empire into four parts and gave four men power

Redistribute the army to protect Rome

Set rules for prices of goods and wages

Ordered workers to remain in the same jobs until they died

Pay taxes in what you make – make olive oil pay in olive oil

The people ignored the new rules Diocletain didn’t have enough power to stop them so he retired

AD 305 – 337

Saw a fiery cross in the sky that said he would win against the odds – became emperor

Made him believe in the Christian god – 1st Christian Roman Emperor

Helped the Catholic church start up

Sons had to follow their fathers and do the same jobs (serfs to the land idea)

Made the Hippodrome (oval amphitheater)

Moved the capital from dying Rome to a new city in the east- chose the site of the Greek city Byzantium and called it Constantinople

Constantine

The Fall of Rome

Main Idea # 1: The Last Attempts to Save Rome

Main Idea # 2: The Germanic Tribes

Main Idea # 3: The Huns V the Germanics

Main Idea # 4: Problems between the Germanic

Tribes and Rome

Main # 5: The Germanic Tribes Vs. Rome

The Last Attempt to Save Rome

Theodosius takes over control after Constantine

passes away and he gains control of Rome and

calms it down. He realizes it is hard to rule Rome

so he splits it in half

West = Rome

East = Constantinople

Germanic Tribes From the marshes and forests of Northern Europe

Do they look familiar?

German

Tribes after

Rome:

Ostrogoths

Visigoths

Franks

Vandals

Angles

Saxons

Visigoths German Darcan

Ostrogoths Anglo - Saxons Franks

Germanic Tribes

If you were a Germanic Tribe why would

you try to take over and battle the

undefeatable Romans?

Location is key? Why is Rome valuable?

Looking for warmer climate for their crops

Good grass lands for their cattle

Running from the Huns who are trying to kill

them

The Huns

•Equestrian Nomads from

Mongolia

•That were looking for

different places to settle

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Huns_empire.png

Germanic Tribes VS the Huns

The Huns defeated some Germanic

tribes making them scared.

The Visigoths ask Rome for protection

Rome gives them protection

What do you think is going to happen??

Problems between the Germanic

Tribes and Rome

Rome takes advantage of the Visigoths

Pay lots of money for food

Become slaves for Romans

Germanic Tribes

Vs. Rome

Visigoths rebel against

the Romans

In 378 the Romans are

beaten for the first time

ever!

Rome must give land to

the winning Visigoths

The Germanic Tribes Vs. Rome

Imagine this situation. The school bully ( a really mean kid that could more than likely kick your butt at any moment) asks you to do his homework and pay for his lunch for the next two weeks. No teacher, administrator, or parent believes you. What do you do?

Now after weeks of doing his homework, you see the bully crying because he stumped his toe in the hall. Now what do you do?

The Germanic Tribes Vs. Rome

Germanic Tribes know

Rome can’t defend

itself …so what do

they do?

Some Germanic Tribes

start crossing into

Rome

The Germanic Tribes Vs. Rome

The winter of 406 is especially cold, what will

happen to the Rhine River?

Freezes and seven tribes come into to Rome to

invade it and take over!

Visgoths*** Angles

Ostogoths Saxons

Vandals*** Huns

Franks

The Germanic Tribes

Vs Rome

Visigoths

Capture Rome and burn important records and

take all the money from the treasury

First time Rome has been captured in 800 years.

Many citizens flee to Constantinople

The Germanic Tribes

Vs. Rome

Vandals

Conqueror Spain and Africa

455 they sail to Italy

They come to Rome enslave many Romans

They strip Rome of anything valuable and destroy everything else

Vandals = Vandalism (willful destruction of property)

The Germanic Tribes Vs Rome

Western Rome- Germanic leaders are put in charge of parts of the government and army

Take control of Rome

by killing 14 year

old emperor

Ends Rome as the

capital

Western Rome and

the Empire are no more

Still keep many

traditions & language

of Rome

The Germanic Tribes

Vs Rome Eastern Rome- Prospered and became known as

the Byzantine Empire with Constantinople become the “New Rome”

Many of the wealthy

of Rome came to

live here

Start to follow many

Greek traditions &

language