The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Economic Troubles

• Decline begins after the _____ ___________ in 3rd
  Century
• Invaders made trade __________ on ______ and on
  __________
• The rich spent ________ and _________ on luxury
  items from Asia which drained Rome of these
  _____________ metals
• Rome began making coins with less silver which
  caused ____________.

• Inflation is a __________ drop in the value of
  __________ coupled with __________ prices for
  items.
• Agriculture ___________ because of infertile
  soil, and _____________ destroyed by war.
• Food _____________
• Spread of __________

Political Troubles
Military Troubles

• __________ tribes were invading Rome
• Soldiers no longer had discipline or __________
  to Rome.
• Soldiers had loyalty only to their _____________,
  who fought not for Rome, but to try to become the
  __________.
• To defend Rome, _____________ were recruited
  foreign soldiers who fought for money.

• Troubles in the empire made citizens lose
  ___________ for Rome
• Being a ___________ official was no
• longer thought to be an ________
• Few people wanted to serve in the
  ___________
• Out of 26 ___________ who became
  emperors, 25 met _________ deaths.

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Constantine

• ___________ in A.D. 284 became a strong leader
• He __________ the Roman armies and hired German
  mercenaries
• Persecuted Christians
• He _________ the Roman empire into 2 sides
• _______ Greek speaking
• West ________ speaking
• He took over the East, but ________ _______ broke
  out after his death

• Took over the West part of the empire in A.D. 312
• Moved the __________ to a strategic location in
  Greece in the East in ______________ and renamed
  it _____________________
• He accepted _______________

The West Falls

• The __________ faced worse problems than the
  east that was far from _______
• From A.D. 376 to 476, huge numbers of
  ____________ tribes poured into Rome to get away
  from the fierce ________
• __________ the Hun was a powerful ____________
  who swept through the west

• ___________ with Pope Leo I and withdrew
• He died in 453 and was no longer a _________
• Germanic tribes continued to ___________ and
  finally the __________ was no longer ___________
• But the ____________ Roman empire
  will_______________ as the _______________ Empire
  that will preserve __________ and __________
  heritage.