35 Flashcards
1
Q
death of TTG
A
395- succeded by honorius and arcadius
2
Q
age of arcadius
A
17/18
3
Q
age of honorius
A
10
4
Q
death of arcadius
A
408 succeded by 7yo theodosius 2
5
Q
end of honorius
A
423- succeded by 5yo valentinian 3
6
Q
1/2 sister of arcadius and honorius and mother of valentinian 3
A
galla placidia
7
Q
pacidia’s daughter
A
honoria
8
Q
daughter of valentinian 3
A
GP the younger
9
Q
wife of arcadius
A
emp. eudoxia
10
Q
sister of theodosius 2
A
pulcheria
11
Q
wife of theodosius 2
A
eudocia
12
Q
daughter of theodosius 2 and wife of valentrinian 3
A
eudoxia
13
Q
son of a Vandal who had served in the Roman army,
A
Stilicho
14
Q
Stilicho’s wife
A
serena neice of theodosius
15
Q
Stilicho’s military success under theodosius
A
magister utriusque militiae, master of both cavalry and infantry, when Theodosius marched west against Arbogast.
16
Q
rufinus vs stilicho
A
rufinus is praetorian gaurd of arcadius and dissagrees with stilicho about illyricum stilcho casually shows up captures alaric then gets gainus to kill rufinus and surrender the troops at constantinople
17
Q
401 aleric
A
invades italy, causing stilicho to mass divert tropops frm the north
18
Q
last day of 406
A
large numbers of Vandals, Suevi,
Alans, and other tribes crossed the frozen Rhine
into Gaul.
19
Q
Constantine the bad one
A
commander in brittan who userped power in the west with support from germans
20
Q
end of stilicho
A
defeats constantine the aleric invades noricum and requests 4000 pounds of gold silico says ok so jealous senotors spread rumors to honorius who executes him in 408
21
Q
aleric attacks rome #1
A
honorius refuses to honor the agreement made by stilicho so aleric seiges rome honorius runs to ravenna’s swamp leading to alric declaring priscus attulus emporer in the west
22
Q
concessions by attulus
A
Aleric= magister
utriusque militiae,
Adolph=count of the
domestics.
23
Q
sack of rome by aleric
A
august 24 410– aleric and his general sarus sack rome on behalf of honorius afetr betraying attus
24
Q
death of aleric
A
at consentia due to travel complications burried under the busentus river
25
aleric's successor
adolph
26
honorius and adolph in 412
they help honorius then he doesnt pay and they seize narbo
27
end of adolph
chased to spain by constatius(the commander) then assasiated in 415
28
adoph successor
wallia-
29
visigth under wallia
helped for a while with the vandals then settled peacefully in gaul untill theodoric became a thing
30
The Vandals, Alans, and Suevi
made freinds with the romans then beat up by the visigoths and all became vandals under King Gunderic. In 428, Gunderic was succeeded by his able and ambitious brother Gaiseric.
31
how did valentinian 3 come to power
he is son of constantius the general and galia placida. he was estranged r=from honorius and flead to theodosius the second in the east then when honorius died he replaced the userper john
32
the affairs in 429
placida, regent of valentinian 3 defeats john who was suported by aetius who had a hunn army. the boniface revolts i africa and is supported by vandals boniface then gets controll of aetius' land and aetius goes to complain to the huns
33
attila ascention
443 over the huns
34
reasons for attilla attacking the west
honoria asked him for help gettig power, gaiseric the vandal asked for him to attack visigoths
35
mauronic plane
attilla looses to burgundines, franks, visigoths under theodoric, and aetius fight him to a draw
36
end of attila
pope leo diplomicies, a plauge hits teh hunns and he dies consumating his marriage to the sister of a burgundine king
37
two groups of franks
ripuarians, and salians
38
angles, saxons, and jutes
raid and settle in brittan untill the romans finally leave in 442
39
the vandals in africa
effectively take all of africa eventually being recognized as an independant king dom in 442 afetr conquering almost all of africa
40
end of aetius
assasinated by a plot lead by the senator petronius maximus in 454
41
the end of valentinian 3 and ensuing struggle
valentinian sides with olybrius a senator then petronius maximus was blocked from power by heraclius so he murders valentinian and heraclius
42
vandal sacking of rome
in 455 maximus marries huneric(son of gaiseric)'s match and so gaiseric sacks rome
43
avitus, majoran and the rise of ricimer
at first everyone exept gaiseric of the vandals recognized avidus but then ricimer manuvered politically and got people to generally accept majoran as maximmus' successor
44
the end of majoran
he didn't get grain and so ricimer deposed and executed him
45
libius severous
ricimer appoints and then poisens #2
46
anthemus
appointed by leo, emporer in the east, then leo fails to depose gaiseric
47
olybrius
appointed by ricimer then both died#3
48
ricimer;s successor
gundobad
49
guundobad- augustulus
gundobad appoints glycerus then leaves to become king of the burgandines, leo then appoints julius nepos who deposes glycerius, then orestes was appointed general in germany and replaces nepos with romulus augustulus who is 12
50
odoacer's acent
orestes fails to grant the german mercimnaries land in italy so they dewpose him and appoint odoacer
51
zeno recognizes odoacer
after odoacer becomes patricus but they still hate each other
52
theodoric the amal pre deal with zeno
leader of the ostrogoths raiding and pillaging western bysantium
53
theodoric beats odoacer
after a 4 year invasion started by zeno paying money
54
zeno's successor
anastasius`
55
frankish ruler
clovis
56
arcadius' boss
rufinus untill assasinated by gainus the ostrogoth
57
gainus the ostrogoth
assasinated rufinus then tried to stilicho then was mobbed out of constantinople
58
leaders of the anti german faction in the east
eudoxia, the PP aurelian
59
eudoxia in 400
made augusta
60
st. john chrysostom
golden mouthed bishob of constantimople anti women
61
arcadius successor
theodosius 2--7yo-- instituted b/c pulceria is his sis
62
anthemus
well connected PP who troed to supplant theodosius 2 but failed b/c pulcheria
63
vow of viginity
pulcheria and her sisters
64
pulcheria in 414
made augusta and reent of theo 2
65
eudocia rise
originally athenais daughetr of the greek philosopher leontius she was married to theo2 by the helanist faction in constantinople undercutting the deeply christian eudoxia
66
university in constantinople
theodosius 2
67
theodosian code
made by theo 2-- confirmed by val 3 a code of laws
68
daughters of eudodcia
eudoxia ty wife of val 3, flavilla
69
cyrill of alexandria
powerful supporter of eudoxia b/c virginity and piety
70
pulceria and mary
mary exhaulted at council of ephesus thus helping pulceria, a fellow virgin
71
theodosius' chamberlin
the eunuch
Chrysaphius,-- out manuvered both wemon
72
eudocia after chrysaphius
religion in jeruselem with melania the younger a christian ascetic
73
yazdgard
persian king tolerent of christians
74
why does bahram 5 hate christians?
they burned zorostrian alter
75
theo 2's reponse to bahram 5's anti christiantity
invades after being persuaded by pulcheria
76
the war with bahram 5
fails horribly leading to an indebtment of 350 pounds of gold every year to the huns thus disgraing pulcheria
77
dounfal of crysaphius
fails to assasinate attila so the nobles resent him for taxes and he dies
78
nestorius bisob of constantinople
said that christ was o two substances which lead to him being baneshed by pulcheria after being defeatd by cyrill at the council of ephasus
79
eutyches
argues that christ was of both human and divine nature and was disgraced depite his conection with crysaphius
80
asbar
part goth part alan rose under pulcheria then crysaphius gets zeno to beat him then zeno(Tarasicodissa) becomes his own political actor
81
the rise of marcian
after the death of theo 2 elevated bt asbar and pulcheria
82
the death of theo 2
falls off a horse while huntig
83
ended tribute to attila
pulcheria and marcian end it
84
anthemus son of anthemus
marries first daughter of marcian in order to please the senate
85
senatorial pick for marcian's successor
anthemus
86
aspar's pick for marcian's successor
leo 1
87
leo's manuvers against aspar
god body gaurds and married his daughter ariadne to zeno
88
who installed anthemus in the west
leo
89
death of aspar
leo and zeno lure him into the palace and then the eunics kill him
90
leo vs theodoric strabo
theo askes for asbar's job and thrace leo refuses so war then theo gets asbar's job and 2000 pounds of goal a year
91
zeno's son by ariadne
leo2
92
rise of zeno
leo2 makes him co emporer
93
who revolted against zeno
verina and theodoric strabo
94
zeno gets peace
amal and strabo and verina plot lots then amal survives becomes king of the ostrogoths and came to an agreement with zeno against odoacer
95
bishob of antioch
john, enamy of cyrill
96
cyril supported what
monophysites
97
diosorus
extreame monopysite bishob of alexandria
98
4th ecumenical council
called by pope leo 1 and marcian iat it Chalcedon
condemned Eutyches for heresy once more,
deposed Dioscorus,
99
rise of anastasius
respected user in the imperial council appointed successor to zeno by ariadne
100
insuarian revolt under anastasius
dissapointed by zeno's brother being passed over, they revolted for 7 years
101
king kawad 1
persian who fought anastasius to a draw
102
anastasius vs the bulgars
bulgars unite ex attila huns to attack thrace and illyria
103
the Long Wall
built by anastasius against bulgars
104
abolished crysargion on crafts men
anastasius
105
vindicies
appointed by anastasius to oversee axes
106
