Fall of Rome and Early Church (350-500)

Question 1

Why did Rome fall?

Answer 1

internal economics/Romans got soft? Barbarians invading to gain education and stuff? Eastern Empire is the true strength and center?

Question 2

Visigoths

Answer 2

378 Battle of Adrianople–first Spanish people to defeat Roman legions (Valens 364-378) on Roman soil; 410 Alaric sacks Rome

Question 3

Ostrogoths

Answer 3

Theodoric (486-526)

Question 4

Huns

Answer 4

Attila–invade Italy in 452 (from Russia), don’t sack Rome, die out

Question 5

Last Roman Emperor

Answer 5

Romulus Augustus 476

Question 6

Vandals

Answer 6

Gaiseric sacks Rome in 455–possible invading to hide from Huns (along with Visigoths)

Question 7

Pirenne Thesis

Answer 7

One historian says Rome lasted until 600s as Roman culture remained (until Islam)

Question 8

Split Empire in Rome

Answer 8

Arcadius in East, Honorius in West

Question 9

Theodosius I

Answer 9

(378-395)–makes Christianity an official religion

Question 10

foederati

Answer 10

federated allies-barbs defending Roman Empire

Question 11

ascetic

Answer 11

”to work” put themselves through process of denying body things to become holy

Question 12

monastic

Answer 12

lives “alone” growth of monasticism is inverse to persecution (self-persecution) (can’t help others)

Question 13

anchorite

Answer 13

old monks were called these, “to withdraw” from society

Question 14

eremitic/hermit

Answer 14

live alone, withdrawn from society

Question 15

cenobitic

Answer 15

”common life” lived together instead of separately

Question 16

Antony of Egypt

Answer 16

(250-356)–first famous monk–lives a while, literally sold everything, lived as hermit in desert, famous because he had a biography

Question 17

Pachomius

Answer 17

(290-346)–founder of cenobitic monasticism–lets live together in an orderly way

Question 18

Basil of Caesarea

Answer 18

(330-379)–rule of eastern monasticism–lots of prayer and private study–still followed in eastern orthodox, Mt. Ethos is purest, holiest place on earth with only male hermits living there in Greece

Question 19

Martin of Tours

Answer 19

(335-397) Roman soldier during collapse who becomes converted and becomes Bishop of Gaul, person who Martin Luther is named after. Legend of giving cape to Christ, after him a Capal place was build for it– a “chapel”

Question 20

Benedict of Nursia

Answer 20

(480-550)–wrote rule of western monasticism, 7 prayer times, more work than the east

Question 21

Jerome

Answer 21

(348-420)–translates Vulgate (standard western bible)

Question 22

Ambrose

Answer 22

(340-397)–Bishop of Milan, Roman administrator who took over north Italian church. Wrote stuff about administration of church

Question 23

Augustine

Answer 23

(354-430)–wrote Confessions (autobiography, Lutheran was an Augustinian monk) and City of God during barbarian invasions