EQ: How did Rome change from being a kingdom, republic, and then an empire?
Julius Caesar gained power and became a dictator but was then assassinated. The reign of Augustus began a long period of imperial rule and peace in the Roman Empire. Rome faced the problems of how to maintain peace, law, and order.
1. What were Rome's problems?
Rome's problems were the invasion of the Barbarian tribes, the rise of the Eastern empire, and the loss of tradition values. The government was weakening and law and order broke down. Rome suffered inflation and prices increased.
2. What changes did Diocletian and Constantine make?
Diocletian took the throne as emperor in 284 AD. He passed many new laws and attempted to restore the economy. He tried to restore the status of the emperor by naming himself a son of the chief Roman god. Then he divided the empire into two, the Eastern and Western. This made it easier to govern.
3. Who invaded Rome and why does it fall?
For the fall of Rome, it was the Huns invading from the east that caused the domino effect, they invaded the Goths, who then invaded the Roman Empire.In 476 C.E. Romulus, the last of the Roman emperors in the west that was overthrown by the Germanic leader Odoacer, who became the first Barbarian to rule in Rome. The order that the Roman Empire had brought to western Europe for 1000 years was no more.
4. What was Rome's legacy?
The legacy of the Roman Empire refers to the set of cultural values, religious beliefs, as well as technological and other achievements of Ancient Rome which were passed on after the demise of the empire itself and continued to shape other civilizations, a process which continues to this day. If it wasn't for Rome, we probably wouldn't have knowledge of building and have our system of laws.
SummaryFrom the middle of the second century CE, The Roman Empire faced increasing Germanic tribe infiltration along the Danubian and Rhine borders, and internal political chaos. Romans in from the third century set up generals as emperors, who were quickly deposed by rival claimants. Facilitating further territorial losses to Barbarian tribes, this continued until Diocletian (r. 284-305). He and Constantine (324-337) administratively reorganized the empire, engineering an absolute monarchy. Cultivating a secluded imperial tenor, Constantine the Great patronized Christianity, particularly in his new city Constantinople, founded on the ancient site of Byzantium. Christianization, in the Hellenized and Mediterranean cities and among certain Barbarian newcomers, proceeded with imperial support, and became the state religion under Theodosius (r. 379-95). Germanic tribal invasions also proceeded, as did battles with the Sassanids in the East. The Empire, as military and bureaucracy, underwent a certain Germanization. From the death of Theodosius, the Eastern Empire followed its own course, evolving into the Hellenized Byzantine state by the seventh century, as repeated sackings of Latin Rome (410, 455), contraction of food supplies to the West, and deposition of the last Western Emperor (Romulus Augustulus) by the Ostrogoth Odovacar (476), ended any hope of recovering Pax-Romana in the Mediterranean basin. Gaul was controlled by a shifting patchwork of tribes.
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