Section 8 Flashcards
Romans referred collectively to barbarians as
Germans
the late Latin word for “soldier” came to be
Barbarus
homeland of the Huns
Mongolia
originating from Mongolia, caused much havoc
Huns
barbarian tribes who lived furthest east in Europe
Goths
Eastern Goths
Ostrogoths
Western Goths
Visigoths
Roman Emperor _______ had little choice but to relent and let them in
Valens
Valens met the Visigoths in combat at the _____________(378 CE) in northeastern Greece, and what happened was not only unexpected but unthinkable to any Roman living then, or dead. Primed by the insults to their pride—or because they were simply scared out of their minds—the Visigoths defeated and massacred the Roman legions sent to keep them in their room. Worse yet, Valens himself was killed in the course of the conflict.
Battle of Adrianople
Valen’s successor, resorted to standard Roman policy and pacified the Visigoths temporarily with handouts and promises
Theodosius I
Those children, _____ and _______ who were both still in their teens, were ill-prepared to hold real power
Arcadius, Honorius
a strong, new leader named ______ rose to power among the Visigoths and started advancing on the West
Alaric
A confederation of Germanic tribes
Vandals
Germanic tribes seized the opportunity to occupy Britain, particularly the ___________________
Angles and Saxons
In this infamous ____________________ (410 CE) Alaric and his comrades plundered the city for three days, a devastation which turned out to be actually less physical than psychological but, even so, a wound which went deep into the heart of an already ailing state
Visigothic Sack of Rome
While barbarian in origin, the Visigoths of Spain quickly adopted Roman customs, the Latin language, and even the Christian religion, though in a heretical variation called _______________________
Arian Christianity (Arianism)
saints’ biographies
Hagiographies
the Vandals’ attack involved prolonged, physical ruin, a destruction so complete and indiscriminate, so emblematic of wanton atrocity, that these barbarians’ very name made its way into common parlance, and ultimately English, as a by-word for “the malicious destruction of property,” vandalism
Vandalic Sack of Rome
the Huns’ new, powerful, European-born leader
Attila
Attila learned that Christians in Rome had pronounced him, in traditional Old-Testament fashion, “_____________________”
“The Scourge of God”
central Gaul
Châlons
Roman emperor when the Huns were defeated
Valentinian III
the leader of the Church, __________________, not only stood his ground but went to face down Attila in person
Pope Leo I
German general ________________ deposed the “last Roman Emperor
Odovacar
the last roman emperor
Romulus Augustulus
the leader of the Ostrogoths who had at last been liberated from Hunnic dominion
Theodoric
Theodoric’s secretary, an orthodox Christian, dominate the accounts of his regime—Theodoric ultimately had him executed
Boethius
Boethius’ successor to the post of secretary
Cassiodorus
he pre-eminent classical historian of England in the later half of the eighteenth century
Edward Gibbon
book written. by Edward Gibbon
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
