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Section 5 Decline and Fall

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Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. (pages 175–177) A long period of unrest followed the death of the last good emperor, Marcus Aurelius, in A.D  The Decline For a period, Rome was ruled by the Severans, whose motto was “pay the soldiers and ignore everyone else.”  After their rule ended, between 235 and 284, Rome was ruled by whoever had the army to seize it.  There were 22 emperors during these years; many died violently.

Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. The Decline (cont.) Simultaneously, the Roman Empire suffered invasions by Persians and Germanic peoples.  Invasions, civil wars, and plague almost caused the Roman economy to collapse in the third century.  Trade and small industry declined, and there was a labor shortage due to plague.  Farm production declined on fields ravaged by invaders. (pages 175–177)

Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Money was short, but Rome needed soldiers more than ever.  By the mid-third century, the state was depending on hired Germanic soldiers.  They had no loyalty to Rome, nor did they understand Roman traditions. The Decline (cont.) (pages 175–177)

Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. At the end of the third and the beginning of the fourth centuries, the emperors Diocletian and Constantine revived Rome, founding a state called the Late Roman Empire.  It had a new governmental structure, a rigid economic and social system, and a new religion–Christianity. The Decline (cont.) (pages 175–177)

Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Diocletian ruled from 284 to 305.  Believing the empire was too large to have only one ruler, he divided the empire into four sections, each with its own ruler, including himself.  His military power, however, made him the ultimate authority.  Constantine, who ruled from 306 to 337, extended many of Diocletian’s policies. The Decline (cont.) (pages 175–177)

Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Both expanded the bureaucracy and enlarged the army to five hundred thousand troops.  Expanding the civil service and the military drained the treasury.  To fight inflation, Diocletian issued strict wage and price controls for the entire empire.  They did not work. The Decline (cont.) (pages 175–177)

Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Both emperors issued edicts forcing people to stay in their jobs, which made basic jobs like being a baker hereditary.  Small, free farmers increasingly were in debt to large landowners. The Decline (cont.) (pages 175–177)

Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. In 324 Constantine became the sole ruler of Rome  His biggest project was constructing a new capital city in the east on the site of Byzantium on the shores of the Bosporus.  Founded for defensive purposes, the city eventually was named Constantinople (present-day Istanbul). The Decline (cont.) (pages 175–177)

Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Calling it his “New Rome,” Constantine filled the city with a forum, palaces, an amphitheater, and other signs of Roman and civic glory.  It became a center of the Eastern Roman Empire and one of the world’s greatest cities. The Decline (cont.) (pages 175–177)

Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. The policies of Diocletian and Constantine were based on coercion and control.  In the long run, therefore, they stifled the vitality Rome needed to revive. The Decline (cont.) (pages 175–177)

Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. (pages 177–178) The empire restored by Diocletian and Constantinople continued for another hundred-plus years.  The Fall It had two capitals, Rome in the west and Constantinople in the east.

Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. The Fall (cont.) In the second half of the fourth century, Huns from Asia moved into eastern Europe and put pressure on the Germanic Visigoths.  The Visigoths moved south, crossing the Danube into Roman territory.  Initially Roman allies, the Visigoths revolted and defeated a Roman army in 378.  More Germans crossed into Roman territory. (pages 177–178)

Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. In 410 the Visigoths sacked the city of Rome.  In 455, another group, called the Vandals, also sacked the city.  Our modern word vandal comes from the name of this ruthless tribe.  In 476, the western emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed by the Germanic head of the army.  This event is usually taken as the fall of the Western Roman Empire.  The Eastern Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, continued on. The Fall (cont.) (pages 177–178)

Click the mouse button or press the Space Bar to display the information. Many theories have been proposed to explain the fall of the Roman Empire: Christianity weakened Rome’s military virtues; Roman values declined as non- Italians gained prominent positions; lead poisoning from water pipes and vessels caused a mental decline; slavery held Rome back from advancing technologically; Rome’s political system proved unworkable.  Probably there is some truth in all or most of these explanations. The Fall (cont.) (pages 177–178)