1. 5 Conclusions  Economics  Beliefs  Social Structures (peoples, family)  Language  Politics (government)

2. Story Time

3. The Roman Empire  Long Long ago, in a land far, far away lived the Romans.

4.  Now these Romans were not ordinary people. No they were extraordinary people

5.  The roman Empire Grew from a tiny village upon a hill to one million fierce Roman warriors.

6.  Now this Rome, This Roman empire was special. You see, the kings originally rules the land and government, but later that changed and the elected leaders of Rome were able to become leaders.  Yeah!

7.  These strong leaders helped Rome become larger Richer and more powerful. POW

8.  But

9.  Over time the Republic slowly started to beak down….disorder spread throughout

10.  Government control was in the hands of the individuals…leading to

11.  The first Emperor. AUGUSTUS

12.  Augustus was a powerful ruler. He conquered much land.

13.  AGUSTUS had an agenda to attend to: He  Declared war  Raised taxes  Punished law breakers  Nominated public officials  Influenced meetings of the senate the elected council that had once ruled Rome  AND lead religious festivals.

14. Thanks to Augustus Rome then became popular for  Advancements  Engineering  Architecture  Art  Philosophy  Christianity

15.  THE END!

16. The FALL OF ROME!!!  STORY TIME!!

17.  There was a huge Empire….The Roman Empire. It was as a strong as strong could be. But one day…

18.  Problems arrived. The inside of the Empire was having trouble with the government control, and the outside…well it was being ATTACKED…  Eventually leading to the SPLIT

19.  The split happened like this….

20.  Eventually the Empire became to big to control. The Persians were attacking from the East. Oh NO

21.  The Germanic warriors the BA RBARIANS from the North.

22.  But before it all fell apart…a few things lead up the Empire totally being SACKED.  The Germans started to farm the land that the Romans claimed was there’s.  SO Not Cool.

23.  Disease spread throughout the land killing many people and high taxes were making people mad.

24.  Because the Empire was in somewhat of a Chaotic state. This nice Emperor…Diocletian decided to divide the empire and rule only the Eastern Half.  What a great a Idea…for the East.

25.  But this other not so nice Emperor Constantine came to rule, and he decided to kick Diocletian out and RULE….but

26.  He thought it would be a great idea to reunite the empire….and calling the capitol after himself. CONSTANINOPLE.  Genius or was he?

27. THE INVANSIONS-AHHH  Besides Diocletian and Constantine ruling what was left of the people of Rome, there became problems much to big to handle….These problems were the HUNS, and the GOTHS.

28.  Now these Huns were not so nice. They came from Central ASIA.

29.  The Huns invaded the South Eastern part of EUROPE. They invaded the Goths who lived there. It became the Huns. Vs. the Goths. YIKES

30.  The Huns won…so the Goths had to push toward the Roman Empire, to get land.

31.  The Romans wanted the Goths away. The Goths won their territory, in the territory battle the Romans vs. Goths and the Romans didn’t want them…poor Goths .

32.  Poor Poor Goths. The Huns had beat them in battle and Romans didn’t want them.

33.  The Romans paid the Goths to leave.

34.  But them the Romans stopped paying them and the Goths SACKED the ROMANS. AHH

35.  The EMPIRE was chaotic.

36.  Because the Romans fought to keep the Goths away and were paying them not to attack them,  in 408 AD the Romans stopped paying the Goths. So

37.  The Goths attacked them and SACKED Rome in 410 AD. No one had attacked the city in 800 years. The Romans were afraid.

38.  The Goths had won. Well if the Goths won….so could the

39.  Barbarian group, and others. The roman Empire was under full attack.

40.  So in the 400s Vandals decided to invade Spain and go toward northern Africa.

41.  The Angles, Saxons and Jutes invaded southern Britain.

42.  Franks invaded France.

43.  In 480 then since Gaul, Germany now days, was no longer under Roman Control a Frankish Kind named Clovis built his Kingdom.

44.  Then the Huns strike again…

45.  Huns under Attila a very scary leader. Lead the Huns in raids against Constantinople, Greece and Gaul.

46.  Yikes…the Roman Empire was under full attack.

47.  And soon the End of the Western Empire was in effect. And in 450s military leaders lead the rest of Rome.

48.  The END. Poor Roman Empire, but what ever happened to the East?

49. Why Rome Fell  Problems inside the Empire  Large size made communication difficult  Corruption became common  Rich citizens left Rome for country estates  Taxes and Prices Rose Problems outside the empire -Barbarians began invading the empire

50. Table Talk What do you think is the main reason for the Roman Empire crumbling? Support your answer.

51. The Byzantine Empire  Constantinople was built on the site of an Ancient Greek trading route called Byzantium  This was the ideal place for wealth and power

52. Then came JUSTINIAN  Rome Fell in 476  Justian ruled from 527-565  He sent an army to Retake ROME in Italy

53. Justian had many passions…  Law and Church  His law was written as the Justinian code—Fair treatment for all

54. Justian and the Enemies  There were only two enemies that tried to overthrow Justian in 532 AD  Theodora his wife told him to stay  In 565 Justian died and the Empire faced a decline with invasions

55. Who was invading the Justinian Empire?  Barbarians, Persians and MUSLIMS  1453 the Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople  Justian was the last emperor of the Eastern Empire

56. A New Society: BYZANTINE EMPIRE  They spoke Greek instead of Latin  There was new interactions with new types of people thanks to trade

57. Byzantine Empire was in the East and the Rest of the Roman Empire was in the West  Government and Religion were different for both the East and the West

58. West: the Old Roman Empire  The Emperor was head of politics and the Pope was head of the Church

59. East: The new Byzantine Empire  The Emperor was head of both the church and state.  Byzantine Empire was Christian.  A beautiful church was built by Justian called the Hagia Sophia

60. Hagia Sophia

61. The East and West  East practiced a different Christianity and eventually formed the Eastern Orthodox Church

62. Ticket out  Which of the following groups did not invade the Roman Empire?  A. Vandals  B. Huns  C. Chinese  D. Ostrogoths