1. The Barbarian Invasions

2. Invasion Rome and Persia threatened by nomadic migrations in the 300’s. – Rome Huns Germanic peoples Germans take over the Western Roman Empire 476 CE. – Eastern Roman Empire remained intact, with capital at Constantinople.

3. Invasion or migration? Did Rome lose... or fail?

4. Roman Empire recovers under Justinian, 527 CE. – Took back much of the Western Mediterranean from Germans. – Justinian reformed Roman law, Codex Digests Institutions.

5. Barbarian Invasions of Rome Goths (Ostrogoths, Visigoths) – Out of Scandinavia – Ostrogoths settle in northern Italy – Visigoths settle in Spain Vandals – Settle in North Africa Huns – Out of Central Asia – Defeated at Chalons, 451

6. The Celts Rome’s “Original” Barbarians By 500 BCE By 275 BCE

11. Revived Roman Empire under Justinian I

13. "Solomon I have outdone thee."

14. Codex Justinianus (Corpus Juris Civilis) – Codex - A listing of edicts to 529 – Digest - Collected Roman legal writings – Institutions - Student textbook The foundation of: – European civil law – Canon law