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Fall of Rome and the Church Flashcards

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Nea Rome

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“New Rome” built by Constantine in 324 where Asia Minor and Europe meet. (Constantinople)

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Who built 12 mile thick walls around Constantinople?

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Theodosius ll

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What was the Christian capital with 50 churches

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Constantinople

  • no pagan churches (banned)
  • major trade route
  • Greek language, but Latin for legal system
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Edict of Milan

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313- Constantine ordered return of meeting places and property to those who lost it during Diocletian Great persecution

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How did the first popes come to be?

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Some bishops saw themselves as successors fo saint peter and claimed precedence over other bishops.

(Many popes)

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What did Constantine do to the weekly calendar?

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Ordered 7 day week with day of rest

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Arianism

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Only god is divine, Jesus is not.

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Had did the empire become a bureaucracy?

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Employed 30 000 administrators to military and civil services.

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What was the Solidus?

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A new coin implemented by Constantine and made from pagan temple gold.

Increased gap between rich and poor.

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The coloni

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People forced to stay in a place and labourers on estates, liable to taxes. (Legally free but confined as slaves)

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Julian

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Constantine’s nephew who rejected Christianity and tried to reverse effect on the empire.

  • dismissed bishops
  • re established pagan temples
  • died
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Jovian

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Successor of Julian, re established Christianity

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Theodosius l

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A ruthless emperor
-did not destroy pagan temples but left them
-got rid of vestal virgins and Olympic Games
Edit of Thessalonica: Form of Christianity in Nicea the official religion of the empire

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In what century did even prosperous cities start to shrink

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4 th century

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What did Goths do at this time in the Roman Empire

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  • Became more difficult to deal with
  • launched raids into Rome
  • converted to Christianity by missionary
  • became allies with a Rome
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Huns

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Horse-Borne nomads form the east that began to destroy Goths agrarian communities.

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War at Andrianople

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  • Goths ask for help from Rome to defeat Huns.
  • Rome agrees but realizes mistake
  • Rome suffers bad loss
  • Goths defeat Huns
  • Goths now treated better by Rome
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What types of superstition spread

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Diviners, oracles, astrology, magicians, charmers

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Thrice-wise Hermes

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Prophet in Egypt that provided followers with texts about astrological, alchemical, and magical recipes

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Neoplatonism

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Started by Plotinus trying to restore philosophies in Rome

  • reading and teaching of Plato
  • Gods rule universe
  • His disciple Porphyry wrote down his texting and used them to wage war on Christians (errors in writing in bible and commandments were bad).
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Origen of Alexandria

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  • born into Christian Family, and so devoted he castrated himself to stop lust.
  • set out to show that Christianity represented the culmination of best parts of Ancient Greek and Jewish culture.
  • Translated Old Testament to Greek
  • Assembled first systematic bible
  • establish a canon: set of texts recognized as orthodox
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Mani

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A Persian Christian that preached what God told him

  • said he had a guide to life the could release people from matter
  • said Gods elect needed to live an ascetic life: no certain foods, no violence to any living thing (reincarnation)
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Eusebius

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Most prominent Christian thinker and writer. Was a cleric from Caesarea. Turned local church into a media Center

  • Dre up the chronicle: long series of world history showing Christianity and Judaism was older than Greek culture.
  • portrayed Constantine and Isela monarch
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Monks

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Left families to live Christian life and pursue holiness by dedication and celibacy.
-Started by military veteran Pachomius who organized communities of men and women who wore uniforms and followed simple set of life rules.

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By the time pachomius died how had monasteries grow

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3000 in Egypt

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Hermits/ dessert father’s and mother’s

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People who lives outside borders of towns and lived lives as monks on their own to make God The Center of their life’s

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Simeon Stylites

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Syrian Christian The fasted and wore painfully tight clothes and sat up top a pillar for 36 years

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Council of Nicea

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Assembly of senior clergy to debate Arianism. Vast majority disagreed. Constantine proposed God and Jesus as of the same substance

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Donatus Magnus

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Bishop of Carthage insisted sacraments by clerics who had compromised beliefs in persecution were invalid

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Constantine’s brutal punishments

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  • those who committed parricide (killing parent) were to be sew up in sack with snakes and thrown into river.
  • slanderers and public enemies were crucified or burned at the stake
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Codification of the laws

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438- Theodosius ll is sed this which was 2700 enactments if the emperors from Constantine to his own, topically arranged.

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Jerome and Augustine

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Jerome- Christian since birth (charged with illicit relations with females.

Augustine- successful orator and leader (pre destination)

Both suggested as Christians to accommodate love for ancient writers with commitment to the church.

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What role did women okay in Augustine’s church

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Subordinate

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The vulgate

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Bible that came to be in western churches (Jerome)

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Fall of Rome (not full reason)

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476- gothic leader odoacer removed Romulus Augustus from throne but gave him a pension and her lived in a villa.

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Fall of Rome lead up

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408- Visigoth leader Alaric besieged Rome for ransom
410- Alaric returns and sacks Rome (not churches, He Christian)
450’s- Attila the Hun ravaged Italy
455- Vandals (Germanic) took North Africa from Romans and sacked Rome

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