The Crisis of the Third Century
Pupienus' co-emperor.
Who is Balbinus?
Diocletian was the first Roman emperor to end his reign by doing this.
What is retiring?
(Bonus points if you can name what vegetable he farmed after he retired.)
The city Constantine founded.
What is Constantinople (now Istanbul)?
The leader of the Visigoths when they sacked Rome in 410 CE.
Who is Alaric?
The name of the German general who removes Romulus Augustulus from the throne in 476 CE.
Who is Odoacer?
The emperor who became the personal footstool of Persian emperor Shapur I.
Who is Valerian?
Diocletian's co-Augustus in the West.
Who is Maximian?
The battle in 312 CE in which Constantine fought against Maxentius, and dreamt that he would win with his soldiers under the Chi-Rho symbol of Christianity.
What is the Battle of Milvian Bridge?
The last pagan emperor of Rome, who grew out a beard and then wrote a satire of Christians that was called "beard-hater" (misopogon).
Who is Julian the Apostate?
Aetius, the advisor of the child emperor Valentinian III, was able to defeat this commander of the Huns in 451 CE.
Who is Attila the Hun?
The emperor, called restitutor orbis, who reunited the Empire after Postumus took control of Britain and Odaenathus took control of the Middle East.
Who is Aurelian?
The name for the period of the Roman Empire from Diocletian's reign to the fall of the Roman Empire.
What is the "Dominate"?
The edict that issued official religious freedom for everyone in the Roman empire.
The place to which Honorius moved the capital of the Western Roman Empire after he realized the city of Rome was no longer safe from invasion.
What is Ravenna?
The two ethnic groups that invaded England after Roman troops withdrew from the island in 410 CE.
Who are the Angles and the Saxons?
The emperor who celebrated Rome's 1000th birthday.
Who is Philip the Arab?
By registering Roman farmers to their land for tax purposes, Diocletian creates this medieval system.
What is serfdom?
Constantine's co-ruler from 313 to 324 CE.
Who is Licinius?
The battle in 378 CE in which Valens fights (and loses to) the Visigoths, angered by Roman mistreatment of them, signaling the beginning of the end of the empire.
What is the Battle of Adrianople?
The ethnic group that takes over Spain, taking it from Roman territory, and sack the city of Rome in 455 CE.
Who are the Vandals?
Who is Numerian?
In 305 CE, Constantius goes to Scotland to fight this ethnic group.
Who are the Picts?
A Christian council called by Constantine in 325 CE to address the teachings of a prominent Christian named Arius, who argued that the Father (God) was more important than the Son (Jesus).
What is the Council of Nicaea?
The full date (month and day included) that Romulus Augustulus was deposed and the Western Roman Empire fell.
What is September 4th, 476 CE?
The ethnic group that controlled Italy from 493 to 540 CE, sent to retake Italy by the Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno.
Who are the Ostrogoths?