The Dark Ages Of The Dark Ages

The Roman Empire influenced the Byzantine Empire’s culture, mainly through the religion of Christianity. Christianity first appeared in the Roman Empire, with the birth, teachings, and supposed resurrection of Jesus Christ. In the beginning years of it’s arrival, Christianity was not tolerated and Christians were mainly, and most often brutally prosecuted. However, with Constantine’s Edict of Milan, Christianity was officially tolerated, and under Theodosius, it became the official religion of the Roman Empire. The Byzantine Empire inherited this relatively new religion, continuing to follow the beliefs and traditions of the church, as well as spreading the word of Jesus Christ and the message of god. Churches sprung up in the empire, such as the mighty Hagia Sophia. Located in Constantinople and built by Justinian, this church especially exemplified

When the wars were going on, nomadic people known as the Huns were migrating through Greek territory fighting battles. Many groups such as, the Visigoths, the Ostrogoths, and the Germanics came over into Rome in search for safety and protection. Rome was soon taken over by invaders after giving up many of their territories. In 378 the empire’s army tried to turn back invading groups and failed miserably, therefore more invaders started to come in aswell. When everyone invaded the empire it greatly damaged their power, then on top of that many other problems play a role in the falling of

                  One of the reasons that Rome fell could have been because of Foreign Invaders.  Rome might have fallen because the invaders were able to sneak in and grow stronger from within Rome’s walls.  Many

“Beginning with the reign of Constantine I and the establishment of the Byzantine Empire, the Eastern Christian church became a tool of the Emperors. Byzantine Emperors and Empresses played a dominant role in the Eastern church and used the Christian religion to strengthen the Empire internally, to spread Byzantine cultural and political influence, and at times, to fortify their own power”

During the period of Rome’s decline several different outside forces attacked Rome. They were the Vandals, Visigoths, and Huns. The Vandals took the region of Gaul, and the Roman army was too disorganized to stop them. The Visigoths plundered and took control of Rome, attacking them through the Alps. The Huns, while paid off by Pope Leo I to have them spare Rome, attacked both parts of the empire. The invasion of the Huns also led to more people seeking refuge and protection in the Roman Empire. The invasion of outside

According to Document C People like the Ostrogoths, Vandals, Visigoths, and the Huns were coming in from all different directions. All of these invasions were somewhat around the time of 400 CE. The leaders of Rome had already made this very powerful Empire and conquered almost everyone around them, so they began to get lazy. With a bigger area to rule over, you need more resources. After the Roman Empire had accomplished the number one goal, they laid off a little so therefore, invaders could come in and take over pretty easily. Overall, because Rome was number one, they were backing off and not being as strict so, invaders came and took over.

First, One of Rome’s biggest problems was the rise of the Huns in Asia. When the Huns started to spread west, they pushed other tribes ahead of them. Those tribes attacked and conquered Rome as they ran away from the Huns. So when the Huns finally arrived, Rome was

One of these people were the Goths. The Goths were being closed in on by the Huns who wanted to kill them, so the Goths wanted to become part of Rome. There were so many Goths that Rome could not say no to them anymore. Rome allowed them in and they lived in Rome. Romans though did not like the goths, though and treated them unfairly with higher taxes and unfair wages. With the Goths being treated unfairly they pillaged the surrounding area to try and get the message through that they should be treated fairly (even if it was in a violent way). Valens took this wrong and attacked the Goths back. Rome did not have the manpower to take on all the Goths. Rome was over confident and attacked anyways. Rome attacked the Goths at Adrianople and in one day around 60,000 Goths killed over 40,000 Romans (The Fall of The Roman Empire). After that battle though the Goths had better wages and taxes. As Rome allowed more and more foreigners inside Rome they became farmers or warriors. There were so many of these foreign warriors in their army that the word for soldiers became barbarian. Rome also stopped requiring people to speak latin making it harder for regiments in the army to communicate to each other. This made roman army less effective at fending off threats attacking their borders. Helping to the decline in militaristic power of the roman

     As the story goes, Rome was founded by a pair of feuding brothers who were allegedly raised by wolves. Romulus and Remus. From that point on, the Roman Empire would play a pivotal role in the development of both Eastern and Western society alike. Its influence can still be noticed. The Empire bought us such inventions as aqueducts, elevators, and innovations like urban planning. This essay will discuss the evolution of the Roman Empire and its impact on the Western World.

The western Roman Empire, was humongous, and that did not help in the attempts to protect it. Rome couldn’t build borders, or boundaries around itself, because there weren’t enough legionnaires to guard them. Instead they decided to use natural borders to keep foreigners out. For example, the mountains, Rhine river, and Danube River. Speaking of legions, the army’s started to focus less, and less on their job protecting Rome, and more on their salary, and emperors. This was a dilemma, because it weakened the legions greatly. Around this time Rome had hired Germanic mercenaries to fight with them, but they had their own ideas. The mercenaries started to turn against Rome itself. To make matters worse, these Germanic tribes invaded Rome, destroying aqueducts for the Roman cities. By destroying the aqueducts, the tribes were restraining the Romans from having fresh drinking, and bathing water in their cities, this was a major issue for Rome. Then, the rivers in which Rome used as borders, froze over, and invaders learned that they could travel across the ice into the cities of Rome. This made coming into Rome very simple for the Germanic tribes. In the year 410 CE, the Germanic Chief Alaric, lead the Germanic tribes in to invade Rome, devastating the citizens. Once inside they burned down Rome itself killing

The Middle Ages is associated with the Dark Ages due to the period including social disorder, political turmoil and widespread disease. The Middle Ages was a period between 500 A.D. to 1500 A.D. during which Europe experienced many drastic changes following the fall of Rome. Some of these changes were beneficial, but the changes also caused negative effects too. Overall, the Middle Ages was a dark time for Europe.

Outside invasion was one of the many reasons for the collapse of Rome. there were two groups that invaded in Rome.One of the invaders were the Visigoths. The other one was Ostrogoths. The Visigoths were the first one to invade Rome and then spread

For hundreds of years the empire of Rome and its citizens fought with neighboring territories and expanded their territory until they had created a vast empire which included much of modern day Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Although many historians and professors claim the fall of the Roman empire was because of excess and corruption, invasions by barbarian tribes, military overspending, economic problems, Christianity and the loss of traditional values and the weakening of the Roman legions created a situation that made the fall of such a large empire inevitable.

As the story goes, Rome was founding in 753 B.C. by two brothers Remus and Romulus who were raised by wolves. The two brothers started fighting over the leadership of the land. Eventually Romulus killed Remus and took control own his own. The city was only a small settlement

Next, Constantine moved the capital from Rome to the east. He chose the Greek city of Byzantium. In 330, after expanding and enriching the city, it was dedicated as New Rome, but it was called Constantinople, meaning “the city of Constantine.” Constantinople became the capital of Christianity in the east, while Rome dominated the religion in the west.