The Fragment Of The Ancient World Flashcards
When started the invasions in the Roman Empire?
5 th century the most important were the hunos
What started in the 5 th century?
A lot of invasions in the Roman Empire one of the most important were the Hunos.
Characteristics of the Germanic tribes:
No writing No laws No state Worked= farming They mixed the costums with the Roman ones and they became used Latin.
When the visigoths arrived to Hispania?
In 409
When the visigoths stablish a stable kingdom
554
In 554 what was capital?
Toledo
The visigoths in 554 were only …
150000 people but they they were aristocracy
Characteristics of the visigoths?
Strong monarchy: hereditary Aula regia Council of Toledo: make laws Control of the Iberian peninsula Legal and religious unification: 508: king reccared = christianism 654: king recessewhinth unified the laws into LIBER LUIDICIORUM
Visigothic art and culture
Mix HISPANO-ROMAN AND VISIGOTHIC CULTURE
The visigoths they built?
A lot of churches.
They worked with metal and gold.
The reasons why the people moved to the countryside in the third century?
1 germanic tribes’ attackers
2 economic problems
3 desire of living protected
Byzantine empire
Eastern Roman Empire
Capital Byzantine empire
Byzantium
Capital eastern Roman Empire
Constantinopla
What wanted the Justinian emperor?
Wanted to restore the Roman Empire