- Diocletian
- rules from 284 - 303
- Persecuted Christians
- Thought Rome needed a bigger army ( 400,000 strong ) and needed a bigger government ( 20,000 officials )
- Constantine
- Rules from 306 - 337
- Believed it was okay to be a Christian
- 313 - His Edict of Milan proclaims freedom of worship
- Built a new capital in the East
- Byzantium, but became known as Constantinople
- The Struggle of the peasants
- Life in the 4th century
- People in the country are becoming bankrupted; by endless tax collection
- New framing system: peasants work for elite landlords on large farms
- paying off debts and being "allowed" to live on the land, in exchange for endless back-breaking work
- Which leads to feudalism
- the empire is in its death row; becoming less and less an interests to the people
- The western Empire crumbles
- The power of Rome is decreasing; while the nomadic barbarians gain power
- Western Empire is too poor , and begins to be neglected
- In 410 - Visigoths took over Spain, and captured and looted Rome itself
- Vandals control Carthage and the western Mediterranean other barbarian tribes:
- These are the people that got to take over in the 5th & 6th century
- Ostrogoths in Italy
- Franks in Gaul
- Angles and Saxons in Britain
- Invasions !
- Paths of how Rome really couldn't defends itself from different people
- They didn't have the army any more and really couldn't protect it
- End of an Era
- from the beginnings...
- 500 BC - the monarchy is abolished
- 450 BC - the Twelve Tables are established
- through the glory days.....
- 44 BC - end of the line for Julius Caesar
- 27 BC - 180 AD - the Roman Peace (Pax Romana)
- to the bitter end .....
- constant fifth century invasions by barbarian tribes left the western Roman Empire shattered and crumbling
- the last emperor was a teenage boy installed in 475 by his father
- barbarians deposed Romulus Augustulus without bothering to kill him
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