Two Emperors

Diocletian:

• He ruled from 284
• cool to persecute Christians
• Jacked up army to 400,000 
• Jacked up government 20,000 officials

Constantine:

• ruled from 306-337
• it's okay to be Christian
• Conversian of Christianity (sign)
• 313- Edict of Milan
• Built new capital Byzantium, soon changed to Constantinople
• East is new capital
• West is hard to take over

Life in 4th Century:

• country men are bankrupt because of the endless tax collection
• Farm system: peasants work for elite landlords on large farms
• Rome power is decreasing
• Western Empire is too poor
• Huns migrate out of China to eastern Europe and take big chunks of empire: The Huns came from China. he Hunnic empire was formed under the reign of Attila, centered in present-day Hungary; its territory included parts of Germany, the Balkans, and Ukraine. It bordered the Eastern Roman Empire to the southeast and the Western Roman Empire to the west and southwest; its other boundaries are uncertain. 
• The Angles were people from German descent who conquered what is now modern-day Britain during the fall of the Roman Empire. The name England originates from the Angles.
• Visigoths take over Spain, actually capture and loot Rome itself in 410:  The Visigoths responded by moving into Roman territory near the mouth of the Danube (in today’s Bulgaria).  But the Romans abused them: officials from Constantinople demanded illegal tribute from Visigoths; when the Visigoths refused to pay, Roman soldiers took their children as slaves, raped the women, and tortured the men.  In 378, 50,000 Visigoths rebelled and defeated an army sent from Constantinople.  They then moved through Greece and along the Adriatic Sea towards Italy. They then seized control over the rich farm land of southern Gaul.
• Vandals Control Carthage and Western Mediterranean: The Vandals invaded Rome's territories in Gaul.  The Vandals moved into Spain and North Africa, and seized control over Roman Numidia in 439.  In 455 the Vandals attacked and plundered Rome from the sea. 
• Other Tribes
• Ostrogoths in Italy 
• Farnks in Gaul
• Angles and Saxons in Britains
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• Ostrogothic Kingdom
• The Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian declared war on the Ostrogoths in 535 AD. During the 20 year war, the Ostrogoths conquered large parts of Italy.
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• The Angles were people from German descent who conquered what is now modern-day Britain during the fall of the Roman Empire. The name England originates from the Angles.
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• peasants can avoid paying taxes, but they are getting hit just as hard by the landlords
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• paying off debts and being "allowed" to live on the land, in exchange for endless back-breaking work (such a deal!)
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• landowners hold local power as counts and bishops, wielding more real power than the faraway empire 
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• foreshadowing feudalism

From the beginnings

• 500 BC- the moarchy is abolished
• 450 BC- The Twelve Tables are established

...throught the glory days...

• 44 BC- end of the line for JC
• 27 BC- 180 AD- The Roman Peace (Pax Romana)

to the bitter end..

• constants fifth centure invasions by barbarian tribes left the western Roman Empire shatterd and crumbling
• Last emperor was teenage boy installed in  475 by his father
• barbarians deposed Romulus Augustulus without bothering to kill him 
• 476 last emperor gone of Western Empire