Rome's Decline and Legacy

__________ is the term describing people who make a living by herding animals and moving from place to place as the seasons change. The Roman Empire was constantly at war with _____ peoples who lived along its eastern borders.

• Nomadic

• Mercenary

• Germanic

• Barbarian

In 306, a civil war broke out, and ______ gained control during the civil war and became emperor. He made it lawful to be a Christian and he moved the empire’s capital from Rome to the ancient Greek city of Byzantium. He renamed it Constantinople.

• Diocletian

• Constantine

• Clovis

• Barbarian

In 284, the emperor _____ took power. He restored order to the empire by ruling with an iron fist and tolerating little opposition. He changed the way the army operated by permanently placing troops at the empire’s borders. He introduced economic reforms. He divided the empire into east and west parts, taking the eastern portion for himself.

• Diocletian

• Constantine

• Clovis

• Barbarian

n 486, _____ the leader of the Germanic group known as the Franks, conquered the remaining Roman land in the province of Gaul (present-day France and Switzerland) and founded a Frankish kingdom.

• Diocletian

• Constantine

• Clovis

• Barbarian

A number ______ peoples and other groups lived beyond Rome’s borders. Romans looked down on these groups but allso feared them. To the Romans, the _____ peoples were barbarians. During the late 300s, these ____ groups began pushing into Roman lands Many were fleeing a fierce group of invaders from Asia known as the Huns. In 476, the _____ tribes conquered Rome.

• Nomadic

• Germanic

• Barbarian

• Mercenary

In 410, Germanic peoples attacked and _____ the city of Rome. _____ means to loot, or take things by force. In 476, the Germanic tribes conquered Rome, and this date marks the fall of the Western Roman Empire

• Nomadic

• Mercenary

• Barbarian

• Plundered

To the Romans, the Germanic peoples were ______. For the ancient Romans, the term _____ meant someone was primitive and uncivilized. The Romans applied the term to anyone living outside the empire

• Mercenaries

• Nomadic

• Barbarian

• Germanic

Rome needed larger armies to respond to so many threats, so it hired ______. ______ were soldiers for hire and often had no loyalty to the empire

• Nomadic

• Mercenaries

• Barbarians

• Plunders

The Western Empire of the Roman Empire crumbled, but the Eastern part survived and became known as the _____. This eastern half of the Roman Empire survived for a thousand years after the fall of Rome. The capital of this empire

was Constantinople, formerly known as Byzantium. Justinian and his wife Theodora ruled with absolute power, and expanded this empire.

• Holy Roman Empire

• Byzantine Empire

• Hun Empire

• Germanic Empire

Which of the following was NOT a cause for the decline of the Roman Empire?

• A series of inexperience, corrupt emperors

• No division of the empire

• Crushing tax burden

• Food shortages