Core 1 Fall of Rome topics

See previous post for directions. This assignment is due Thursday, Dec. 6.

1. Charles Martel, Battle of Tours - Raul

2. Clovis king of the Franks - Liam

3. Charlemagne - Nicholas

4. Holy Roman Emperor 800 AD or CE

5. treaty of verdun 843 - Victor

6. Viking invasions - Andrea

7. Sack of Rome 410 CE or AD - Cooper

8. Fall of Rome - economic decline - Maja

9. Fall of Rome - political instability

10. Fall of Rome - weakening frontiers, Germanic migrations, invasions

11. Visigoths

12. Ostrogoths

13. Vandals - Kimon

14. Attila the Hun and the Magyars - Mateo

15. Constantine moves capital to Byzantium or founding of Constantinople – Kyle A.

16. Diocletian divides Roman Empire - Sam

17. Roman architecture - vaults and domes - modern architectural buildings, give specific example - neo classical style - Morgen

18. Latin proverbs - Caroline

19. Famous Roman Republic writers - name, time period, famous work or type of writing - Emma

20. Famous Roman Empire writers - name, time period, famous work or type of writing - Raya

21. The Roman Calendar - July, August and how the calendar worked. What does the name of each month mean and where is that name derived - Riley

22. Roman Number system explained - Emily

23. Roman Philosophy - Stoicism, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius – Kyle B

24. Roman Philosophy on Education – Cicero - China

25. Justinian - attempt to reestablish Roman Empire in the west - Carmen

26. Theodosius - outlaws pagan rituals

27. Council of Nicaea and the New Testament

28. The Gnostic Gospels

29. The Arian Schism and Arianism

30. Byzantine Iconoclasm

31. Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church split - excommunication of the Patriarch of Constantinople

32. Rise of Islam - the Spread of Islam by 850 CE - expansion into eastern Mediterranean

33. The Fall of Constantinople 1453 CE -

34. Justinian’s debt