6.4 Flashcards
What factors effected romes economy?
Hostile tribes
Pirates
Lacked resources of gold and silver
Raised taxes
Define inflation
A drastic drop in the value of money with a rise in prices
Define mercenaries
Foreign soldiers who fought for money
What did using mercenaries cause
Lack of patriotism
Who reformed the Empire and how
Diocletian a stronghold willed army leader by severely limiting personal freedoms.
How did Diocletian restore peace
Doubled the size of the army
Had fixed prices on goods
What was Diocletian most significant reform
Dividing the empire into the greek speaking east (Greece, Anatolia, Syrian, and Egypt) and the latin speaking west (Italy, Gaul, Britain, and Spain). He took the eastern half and appointed another ruler for the western half.
The east was more developed.
Who came after diocletian?
Constantine gained control of the western part and then later controlled east.
What did constantine do to the capital
He moved it to the greek city Byzantium
Define Constantinople
The city of constantine (the capital)
East would survive constantines death west would fall.
How did the western empire fail
The huns (asian tribes) invaded region of Germanic tribes. In effort to flee germanic people pushed into roman territory
Attila
A powerful chieftain of the huns who terrorized both halves of the empire
What did the eastern half of the empire turn into after the western disappeared
Byzantine empire that preserved greek culture for another 1000 years
They saw themselves as heirs to augustus.
