2. Did Rome allow its
conquered people
religious freedom?
70 AD: Jewish revolt in Jerusalem crushed.
Why was Rome worried about Christianity?
3. Blamed Christians for political troubles
Emperor Nero blamed Christians for a fire
Many Christians imprisoned or killed
Who were the martyrs?
4. 200s: Millions of Christians in Roman Empire
Why was Christianity popular?
7. During battle, saw a Cross in the sky
with the words “In this sign you will
conquer.”
Had troops paint the symbol on
helmets & shields
Edict of Milan: Decreed Christianity
one of the empire’s legal religions
Built churches and made Sunday a
holy day of rest
By 380, Christianity is made the
official religion of Rome
8. Catholic means “universal”
First Bishop of Rome (Pope): apostle Peter
Christianity changed from a small sect into a
powerful and wealthy religion
9.
10.
11. 100s AD: Empire stops expanding
How did this hurt the economy?
Overuse of land led to a decline in agriculture
Reliance on slaves prevented new techniques from
being developed
Food shortages caused unrest
12. Due to constant fighting
with nomadic peoples,
Rome needed larger
armies
Hired mercenaries with no
loyalty to Rome
Soldiers became loyal to
their commanders and to
gold.
13. Size of the empire made it difficult to govern.
Government officials corrupt
Less Romans educated
A loss of the sense of civic duty
14.
15. 284: comes to power
Restored order
Placed troops at empire’s
border
Kept bread prices low
Divided empire in half,
keeping eastern half for
himself. Why?
17. Late 300s: Nomadic Germanic
tribes begin pushing into Rome
Were these groups “Barbarians”?
Why did these groups make this
move?
476: City of Rome conquered by
Germanic tribes
18.
19.
20. Gaul conquered by Clovis
and a Frankish kingdom
established
What happened after the
Western Empire collapsed?
21.
22. Eastern Empire
Lasts 1,000 years longer than the Western Empire.
Named after the city of Byzantium (later renamed
Constantinople)
Those who lived here spoke Greek, but considered
themselves Romans
Byzantine students studied Latin, Greek, and
Roman literature and history.
23. Ruled 527-564
Armies reconquered Italy,
northern Africa & southern
coast of Spain
Rebuilt Constantinople
Built schools, hospitals, law
courts
Built Hagia Sophia, a
church that is today a
Mosque.
Justinian Code: legal code
based on Roman Law
24. Who was in charge of the
Church?
East & West clashed over who
was the final authority on
religious matters
1054: The Great Schism
West: Roman Catholic Church
East: Easter Orthodox Church
25.
26. Pope has great influence over western kings
and emperors
Byzantine Emperor controlled the Patriarch
(leader of the Eastern Church) and the Church
27. Unrest after Justinian’s death
Which groups attacked the Byzantine Empire?
1350: Empire severely shrunk
1453: Turks conquered Constantinople
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28.
29. Mosaic: picture made by
up by small pieces of
glass, stone, or tile
30. Romans adopted the epic
poem from Greece
Virgil’s Aeneid about hero
of the Trojan War Aeneas.
Emperor Marcus Aurelius
explained the philosophy of
Stoicism in Meditations
31. Latin evolved into the Romance Languages
Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian
32.
33. Arches, vaults, domes
Roman developments
made it possible to
build larger, taller
buildings
Developed concrete
34. Roman law is at the heart of many European
countries & the US
Equal treatment under the law
Innocent until proven guilty
Legislative assemblies modeled on the Senate
