Chapter Seven Flashcards
upon becoming emperor, Diocletian instituted 2 major reforms:
-the dominate
-the division of the empire
His reign stabilized the empire and marks the end of the crisis of the third century
Diocletian
He eliminated his last rival in 324 to become the sole ruler of a unified empire
Constantine the Great
Agreement to treat Christians benevolently within the Roman Empire
Edict of Milan 313
First ecumenical Christian conference of 220 bishops
Council of Nicaea
A declaration and summary of the Christian faith
The nicene creed
Constantine
Establishing his new capital city of Byzantium in 324
Constantinople
Builds the _______________ where Constantine believed was the purported site of Jesus’s tomb in Jerusalem
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
In 391he declared Christianity to be the state religion
Theodosius 1
A massive tribal confederation who had set in motion the vast movement of numerous Germanic tribes into the Roman Empire contributing to its eventual collapse
the Huns
Most feared enemy of the western and eastern Roman Empire
Attila the Hun
The city of _____ was founded as a result of these attacks
Venice
branches
Played an important role in the fall of the western Roman empire
Visigoths and Ostrogoths
In 378, for the first time in 600 years a Roman army was crushed on Roman soil at __________ and killed the emperor Valens
Adrianople
Half vandal and Roman rose to the rank of “master of the soldiers” most powerful man in the western Roman Empire
Stilicho
410, Alaric and his visigoths burst into the city and ________ not since 390 BC
Sacked Rome
The greatest of all Ostrogoth rulers
Theodoric the Great
455 the vandals sacked Rome, ruthlessly defaced the glory of Ancient Rome. The term _____ was coined, the term was quickly adopted throughout the Europe
Vandalism
The Merovingian’s survived so long because they were better than the other kingdoms, they successfully
Combined their own traditions to Roman social and legal traditions
The eastern empire
For 20 years he attempted to reunite the empire
Justinian 1
In 542, a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague laid siege to the world,killing tens of millions
It had a disastrous effect on army recruits and tax payers
