Fall of Rome Vocab Flashcards
What is Monotheism?
The belief in one god.
What is Polytheism?
The belief in multiple gods.
What is Ceaser?
The title used by the emperors of the Roman Empire.
Who was Constantine?
Roman Emperor that ruled from 306-337 and made many reforms including unifying the Roman Empire and accepting Christianity as a faith in Rome.
Who was Diocletian?
Roman Emperor that ruled from 284- 305. Made many reforms including dividing the Empire in half with 4 regions total
Germanic Kingdoms
Political kingdoms that existed in central, northern, and eastern Europe during the time of the Roman Empire.
Who were the Huns?
An ethnic group of nomadic people with Asian/European heritage that lives NE of the Roman Empire and were a threat to the German Kingdoms and Rome.
Who was ODOACER?
The king of a Gothic Kingdom that successfully invaded the city of Rome and conquered the Roman Empire
BYZANTINE EMPIRE
After the fall of the WESTERN Roman Empire in 476 AD/CE, Historians name the EASTERN Roman Empire this instead.
What were the DARK AGES?
A period of a few hundred years in Europe after the Fall of the Eastern Roman Empire. This period of time is characterized by widespread war, hunger, disease, suffering. Lacking in technology and trade.
