Name_______________________________________________ Period ___________ Section 9.2 - The Fall of Rome I. The Decline of Rome In AD 180 _____________________________________ died. His son Commodus was cruel, wasted money, and spent time fighting as a gladiator. He was killed in AD 192 by _______________________________________. The next 100 years was a period of spent _________________________________ and _________________________________________________. The rulers knew the army was important so they paid them well, but ignored ____________________________________. A. Political and Social Problems a. When the last of these rulers died in AD 235, Rome’s government became very weak. b. Army leaders kept fighting each other for the throne. i. 50 years = ______________________________________ c. Romans quit honoring the old ideals of duty, courage, and honesty. d. . e. Wealthy Romans quit paying taxes. f. People quit _________________________________ g. The slave population was massive because it was cheap labor. B. Economic and Military Problems a. Rome’s economy began to fall apart in the AD 200s.
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Name_______________________________________________ Period ___________
Section 9.2 - The Fall of Rome
I. The Decline of Rome
In AD 180 _____________________________________ died. His son Commodus was cruel, wasted money, and spent time fighting as a gladiator. He was killed in AD 192 by _______________________________________.The next 100 years was a period of spent _________________________________ and
_________________________________________________. The rulers knew the army was important
so they paid them well, but ignored ____________________________________.
A. Political and Social Problemsa. When the last of these rulers died in AD 235, Rome’s government became
very weak. b. Army leaders kept fighting each other for the throne.
i. 50 years = ______________________________________
c. Romans quit honoring the old ideals of duty, courage, and honesty.
d. .e. Wealthy Romans quit paying taxes.
f. People quit _________________________________
g. The slave population was massive because it was cheap labor.B. Economic and Military Problems
a. Rome’s economy began to fall apart in the AD 200s.
b. As the gov’t weakened, _________________________________________________and people
did whatever they wanted.
c. Roman soldiers and invaders seized crops and destroyed fields.
___________________________________________________________________________
d. Economy got worse – people bought less stuff, so artisans
____________________________________________________________and many businesses
closed – the number of ____________________________________.
e. Without jobs, many people had to leave and serve in ____________________
Name_______________________________________________ Period ___________C. Economic and Military Problems
a. A plague (_____________________________________________) spread across the land
and killed 1 out of every 10 people in the empire.
b. Rome began to suffer from inflation (_______________________________
__________________________________________________).
c. People didn’t pay taxes. Rome couldn’t pay its soldiers. They didn’t put as much gold in each coin so the coin was worth as much was it had been before. ($5 coin was now only worth $3 instead).
d. When people realized the coins had less value but people were still spending
them as the same coin, __________________________________________.
e. People responded by not using the money at all. They started to barter
(______________________________________________________).
D. What were Diocletian’s Reforms?a. Diocletian – __________________________________________________ in AD 284. He
knew the empire was declining so he created reforms
(__________________________________________________________).
b. The empire was too big to rule so he divided it in 4 parts. He put officials to rule in these areas.
c. He worked to boost the economy. Created rules that set the prices of goods and the wages to be paid to workers. He made workers stay in the same job until they died to make sure more products were produced.
d. ___________________________________________________________________
E. Who was Constantine?
a. ______________________________________________________________ in AD 312 named
Constantine.
b. He decided that all sons had to continue in the trades of their fathers whether workers, soldiers, or farmers.
c. Since things were still declining in the empire in the west, he moved the
capital from Rome to the east. He chose the site of the Greek city of
Byzantium and renamed it __________________________________.
II. Rome Falls
, Theodosius –
He divided the empire with the _____________________________________ with the capital in
Rome and the ____________________________________ with its capital in Constantinople.
Name_______________________________________________ Period ___________
A. Rome is Invadeda. As Rome declined, it was no longer able to hold back the Germanic tribes on
its borders. Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Franks, Vandals, Angles, and Saxons.
These groups were looking for _________________ and the
____________________________.
b. __________________ (from Mongolia) were another group that were invading the
area. They entered Eastern Europe and defeated the Ostrogoths.
c. Fearing the Huns, the ___________________________ asked Rome for protection in return for the Visigoths’ loyalty to Rome. But the empire forced the Visigoths to buy food at high prices and also kidnapped and enslaved many of their people.
B. Rome is Invadeda. The Visigoths rebelled against the Romans in AD 378 beating them and
forcing them Romans to surrender land to them. In AD 410,
____________________ (Visigoth leader) captured Rome.
b. Knowing that Rome couldn’t defend itself any longer, other Germanic tribes
began advancing on Rome territories.
c. The ___________________ overran Spain and Northern Africa.
i. They enslaved some of the Roman landowners and drove others away.
ii. Then they came to Italy and entered Rome in 455 AD. They stripped the city of everything valuable and burned them.
iii. That’s where the word vandals comes from. C. Rome Falls
a. By the mid-400s AD, several Germanic leaders held high posts in Rome’s government and army.
b. AD 476 a Germanic general named ____________________took control overthrowing a western emperor named Romulus Augustulus. This is seen as the official end of the Western Roman Empire.
c. While the Romans were no longer in control, their ideas lived on. Their Latin
language, Roman laws, and Christianity continued in Italy.
d. The Eastern Roman Empire became known as the ______________________ and
lasted another 1000 years.
III. Legacy of Rome
Our world would be very different if it weren’t for the Romans. Our words, our government, architecture, and religion…
Name_______________________________________________ Period ___________A. Roman Ideas and Government Today
a. We, like the Romans, believe that all people are __________________________.b. People are innocent until proven guilty.c. We believe that a republic made up of equal citizens is the best form of
government.d. We believe this works best if citizens do their duty, _________________________
____________________________, and work to make their society better.
B. Roman Influence on Culture
a. _________________________________________________ is what all the romance languages
is based on.
b. We still admire the great works of Roman writers like Virgil, Horace, Livy, and Tacitus
c. We still use ________________________ today.d. The architectural styles are used in many buildings today – arches and
domes are in many of our famous public buildings. C. Christianity
a. Rome’s government began persecuting the Christians, but eventually adopted it in AD 300s and helped the new religion grow and spread.
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