1. Big Idea Get your book!!! !

2. Let’s go outside Roadrunners go out to the playground. Wille E Coyote stay right by the rails at the end of our hallway. Open your book to page 16 and read along with the CD.

3. Social Studies Standard 7.1.1: Study the early strengths and lasting contributions of Rome and its ultimate internal weaknesses. Paraphrase:

4. Reading Comprehension 2.1: understand and analyze the differences in structure and purpose between various categories of informational materials. Paraphrase

5. citizenship: membership in a political community that brings both rights and responsibilities. corruption: involves the use of a position of trust for dishonest gain. Attila: the Hun’s chief autonomous: self-governing Clovis: King of the Franks

6. Rome’s Internal Weakness Expanding Citizenship-All free men no matter where the lived could be a citizen. Economic Problems-Poor increased, taxes went higher, corruption started. Social Problems-Rich started their our little towns called latifundia. This lead to poor having to be employed by the rich or join the army. Also there was a decline in the cities. A weaker army- Foreign recruit began to weaken the army.

7. Threats from Outside the Empire Barbarian Invasion-The Hun’s started over taken little groups along the Danube. Romans tried to stop them in 378 AD but failed. Once this happened many invaders started. New Germanic Kingdom-As the barbarian attacks keep over taken the empire, many Germanic tribes settled in those areas. They started their own autonomous kingdoms.

8. Summary : In this section we have learned about how internal weaknesses and outside attacks led to the collapse of the Western Empire. Many historians have looked into the weaknesses of the empire and have thought that the empire would have worked out the weaknesses and survived. But it was the invasions that ultimately took down the empire.

9. Social Studies Standard 7.1.1 and Reading Comprehension Standard 2.1: Structure: Graphic Organizer Purpose: to help students by simplifying information and by stimulating thinking skills.

10. Why is it that when the army started accepting foreign warriors it became much weaker? Why is it when empires get bigger the ability to rule is less?

11. As the taxes are raised corruption happens and the gap between the rich and the poor gets much bigger. As the Army takes on more foreign recruits, the loyalty factor goes down.

12. Invasions the Huns started out on the peaceful tribes and then moved on to the bigger tribes. As they became more fierce the Roman Army left their post and retreated which allowed the Huns to over take the cities easily.

13.  What internal weaknesses led to Rome’s decline?  The internal weaknesses that led to the decline of the Empire were Expanding citizenship, Economic Problems, Social Problem, and A Weaker Army.

14. What outside influences led to the decline of Rome?

15. Complete the worksheet “Why did Rome Fall?” Read and complete “The Fall of the Roman Empire”