Fall of Rome
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Social Studies
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9th - 10th Grade
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Hard
Joseph Anderson
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9 Slides • 7 Questions
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Source Review - Fall of Rome
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Chart of Emperors - Doc A
Created from various sources
Generally that means everyone agrees on it
very little room for doubt
it's up to the reader to interpret the data
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Vegetius - Doc B
Lived in the late Roman Empire - 400 CE
He's writing about the faults of the people that came before him
Can see the failure in front of him
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What does he say?
Roman military was great.
Soldiers refused to carry armor and wear helmets
Soldiers abandoned parade ground drills
Many soldiers preferred to run rather than fight
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Ammianus Marcellinus - Doc E
never lived with the Huns
said they were 'savage', 'wild', 'like unthinking animals'
shows not who the Huns were, but who the Romans thought the Huns were
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Priscus - Doc E
Lived with the Huns
spoke to other Romans living with the Huns
Other Romans liked living with the Huns - they felt Rome had poor leadership, unjust enforcement of the laws,
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Edward Gibbon - Doc F
spent 12 years writing about the Fall of Rome
considered the authority for a long time (he wrote in 1776)
Earthquakes and floods (tsunamis) hit the Roman Empire
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Peter Stearns - Doc F
measles was a disease that caused great depopulation
depopulation - could be people dying or leaving the area (75% of people in Rome)
it became hard to recruit people into the army - they had to pay outsiders to be in their army - in spite of having a reduced amount of tax revenue
Stearns is one of four writers who made an AP World History textbook
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