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Pre-Class

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Rome Falls

• The Slow Decline of the Empire

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Preview

• Today you will
• See the Roman Empire divide into two separate
  empires.
• Search for causes for the decline of the Western
  Roman Empire.
• Analyze the fall/decline of the Roman Empire.

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Causes of Decline

• With a partner
• Search for the various military, political,
  economic, and social causes for the decline of
  the Western Roman Empire.
• Use your textbook, pp. 173-177 to find causes.
• Define the three terms at the bottom of the page.

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Military Causes
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Political Causes
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Economic Causes
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Social Causes
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Stop the Bleeding

• Diocletian
• Splits the Empire (map p. 174)
• Why?
• Constantine
• Gives toleration to Christians
• Establishes new capital at Constantinople

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The Fall

• 410 A.D.
• Rome sacked by the Visigoths
• 476 A.D.
• Last Roman Emperor removed from power
• Fall vs. Decline

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Bingo Review

• Aristocrat
• Alexander the Great
• Democracy
• Homer
• Polis
• Parthenon
• Athens
• Acropolis
• Philip II
• Delian League
• Pericles
• Trireme
• Assimilation
• Peloponnesus

• Republic
• Consul
• Senate
• Constantine
• Dictator
• Apostle
• Pope
• Hannibal
• Imperialism
• Julius Caesar
• Pax Romana
• Aqueducts
• Mercenaries
• Clergy

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Bingo Review (Slide Two)

• Republic
• Consul
• Senate
• Constantine
• Dictator
• Apostle
• Pope
• Hannibal
• Imperialism
• Julius Caesar
• Pax Romana
• Aqueducts
• Mercenaries
• Clergy