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1 Decline of Rome

2 The Greatest Empire

3 50 years – 26 Emperors End of the Pax Romana

4 Diocletian Diocletian 284 AD

5 Constantine Constantine 312 AD Constantinople Renames Byzantium - Constantinople

6 Decline of Roman Empire Hun push Barbarian tribes into Roman Empire out West…

7 Western Military Hires Germanic Immigrants Decline of Roman Empire Western Military Hires Germanic Immigrants out West…

8 Alaric I Decline of Roman Empire Alaric I 410 German mercenaries turn on Rome

9 out West… Attila the Hun

10 Attila the Hun Attila the Hun 434 “the scourge of God” Over ran most of Western Roman Empire collecting huge ransoms and extortion money from Rome

11 Attila and the Church Roman Catholic church negotiated a truce with Attila.Roman Catholic church negotiated a truce with Attila. Church used it as propaganda for powerChurch used it as propaganda for power Led to control and power in the WestLed to control and power in the West

12 Fall of Western Empire 476 Odoacer of Heruli a German mercenary who became the first barbarian King of Italy out West…

13 Political Oppressive Government Division of Empire Internal Power Struggles

14 Military No loyalty - Germanic Germanic Invasions

15 Economic Increase in taxes to support big Government Reliance on cheap/slave labor

16 Social Decline of PatriotismDecline of Patriotism Decline of Self-reliance of massesDecline of Self-reliance of masses

17 Back in Constantinople 537 Emperor Justinian –Hopes of taking back the great Empire

18 Hagia Sophia “oh, Solomon. I have surpassed even thee” - Justinian

19 Hagia Sophia

20 Emperor Justinian –Hopes of taking back the great Empire –Stopped by the plague killed up to 5,000 people per day in Constantinople the Plague of Justinian killed as many as 25 million people across the world Back in Constantinople 537

21 Emperor Justinian –Hopes of taking back the great Empire –Stopped by the plague Byzantine Empire could not afford to maintain Western Europe

22 Byzantine Empire The new empire in the east Byzantine Empire

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