posted by BiAthlete, November 23, 2006
hey #RedSorceress and #TheStoryteller, i missed class yesterday
in history we were discussing the fall of #rome? it was, like, the visigoths and stuff sacking it, right?
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posted by RedSorceress, November 23, 2006
Yeah, basically. But there were a ton of factors. The army lost its ability to control territories by force, the government couldn’t keep everyone happy, there were economic problems with a coin shortage and stuff, and new relgious movements, and Constantine moved the seat of power away from Rome itself, so… yeah.
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posted by TheStoryteller, November 23, 2006
Yeah and don’t forget only the western part of the empire fell. The eastern empire, which became called the Byzantine Empire, lasted another thousand years.
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posted by BiAthlete, November 23, 2006
so “visigoths” won’t be a sufficient answer on the test?
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posted by RedSorceress, November 23, 2006
For an essay question? no…
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posted by TheStoryteller, November 23, 2006
Okay, remember Abbaxad in #TON “Between Red Stars”? How it was overrun and stuff in the Galleon War, and that was sort of the end of Severinna’s rule? But throughout that book, you could see the signs of decline. it wasn’t just one event. Thus it was with #Rome.
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posted by BiAthlete, November 23, 2006
gotcha
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posted by TheStoryteller, November 23, 2006
I’ve uploaded my notes to the #rome tag for you.
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posted by Notashak, November 24, 2006
The fall of #Rome is a misnomer. There was no, like, cataclysmic event — it’s not like all Romans were killed and replaced by barbarians. The political landscape changed, sure, and the Roman Empire as it was eventually dissolved, but “the fall of the Roman Empire” has such an apocalyptic, sudden implication, which wasn’t there at all. It happened over hundreds of years. The term just became popularized by Edward Gibbon’s seminal work “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”
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posted by BiAthlete, November 24, 2006
you’re not even in our grade, joe.
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posted by Notashak, November 24, 2006
😛
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