ROMANS,
BARBARIANS AND CHRISTIANS
- In
3rd Century the Roman Empire
began to disintegrate
- Civil
War (235 284)
- Barracks
Emperors
- Diocletian (ruled 284 305) from
Spalato
- Reorganized
administrative structure
i.
Empire divided into Eastern and Western halves - Tetrarchy
1.
East Diocletian Dominus
2.
West Maximian Augustus
3.
Each man assisted by Caesar
ii.
Each half divided into prefectures (prefect); divided into dioceses (vicarius);
divided into provinces (governor)
- Transformed
emperor
i.
Princeps absolute monarchy
ii.
Jovius (son of Jupiter)
- Structured
economy
i mobility, wages, prices
- Attacked
Christians
- Constantine
(306 337) ruled 324 337
- Recognition
of Christianity as legitimate
- Christian
building program in Rome
- New
capital Byzantium
aConstantinople
(Western
Roman Empire) WnE (Byzantine
Empire)
- 4th
Century Germanic/Barbarian Migrations
- Motivations?
overpopulation/threat of Huns
- Goths
ask Emperor Valens for permission aEmpire
- 378
Battle of Adrianople
- 476
Romulus Augustus aOdoacer
3000
BC End of Ancient
World
500 AD
- Germanic
Culture
- Franks/Clovis
(ruled 481 511)/Gaul
i.
496 conversion to Christianity
ii.
Intermarriage of Barbarians and Romans
- Christendom
(France, Belgium, Rhineland, Britain,
Northern Italy)
- Basic
social unit kin (non-nuclear family)
- Law
custom wergeld
- Kings
- warriors
See
Tacitus, Germania