Roman Rulers
He is best known for his debaucheries, political murders, persecution of Christians and a passion for music
Emporer Nero
group of Germanic peoples whose name was first mentioned in 3rd-century Roman sources, and associated with tribes between the Lower Rhine and the Ems River, on the edge of the Roman Empire.
Franks tribe
first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of petty kings to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs.
King Clovis
one part of the Corpus Juris Civilis, the codification of Roman law ordered early in the 6th century
Justinian Code
belief that there is only one god
Monotheistic
He was perhaps both a good and bad emperor. ... However, he also was one of the worst emperors when it came to human rights, persecuting and killing many people, especially Christians, because of their religion.
Emperor Diocletian
nomadic tribe prominent in the 4th and 5th century CE whose origin is unknown but, most likely, they came from "somewhere between the eastern edge of the Altai Mountains and the Caspian Sea, roughly modern Kazakhstan"
Huns tribe
Christian saint venerated in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion and Old Catholic Churches. He is a patron saint of Europe.
Saint Benedict
organizes the monastic day into regular periods of communal and private prayer, sleep, spiritual reading, and manual labour
Bendictine Rule
what did the greeks call barbarians
bar-bar
made Christianity the main religion of Rome, and created Constantinople, which became the most powerful city in the world.
Emperor Constantine
Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe.
Goths tribe
males who voluntarily retreat into solitary life or a communal life with other monks in order to achieve communion with God
Christian monk
portion of land nearly surrounded by water and connected with a larger body
Peninsula
meets with heads of state and maintains diplomatic relationships with more than 100 nations.
Pope
Justinian the Great
Germanic people who first inhabited what is now southern Poland
Vandals tribe
invasions by Barbarian tribes, Economic troubles, and overreliance on slave labor, Overexpansion and Military Spending, and Government corruption and political instability.
Fall of Rome
very large area of land
continent
extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority
Empire
Byzantine empress by marriage to emperor Justinian. She became empress upon Justinian's accession in 527 and was one of his chief advisers, albeit from humble origins.
Empress Theodora
first Frank King to unite all Frankish tribes under one authority
Clovis
A military diploma, or certificate of successful military service, granting citizenship to a retiring soldier and the dependents he had with him at the time.
Civitas
As gold coins were spent on soldiers to serve in the army, these would in time spend their money acquiring their own goods and much revenue would return to the state in the form of taxation. As a result, the Byzantine economy was self-sufficient, allowing it to thrive in the Dark Ages.
What helped grow the Byzantine Economy
Double Jeopardy
point to a map or globe the location
of ROME !