Cast of Characters
The frist Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.
Who is Constantine the Great?
The religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Romans preferred urban cities while Germanic tribes lived in this kind of environment.
What are rural areas?
What is Rome split into the Eastern and Western Empires?
This Germanic tribe sacked Rome in this year.
Who are the Visigoths and when was 410?
A huge region of varied cultures under the control of one government.
What is an empire?
The Romans acquired their food by this method while Germanic tribes preferred this.
What are agriculture and hunting?
This empire contained Jerusalem.
What is the Eastern Roman Empire?
Many people of all classes converted to Christianity as a result of this.
What is Constantine's conversion?
A person owing loyalty to and entitled to protection by a state or a nation.
Mediterranean Education vs. Germanic cultures
What is highly literate vs. illiterate?
The Western Roman Empire is bordered by these two bodies of water.
What are the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea?
Between the years 400-430 CE, the Eastern and Western Roman Empires fought against the invasion of these four tribes.
Who are the Franks, Vandals, Visigoths, and the Huns?
A person who has been convinced to change from one religion to another.
What is a convert?
What is valued public & private baths vs. dirty and smelly?
Foreign soldiers weakened the Roman army for these four reasons.
What is not knowing Rome's laws, customs, language (latin), and loyal only for pay?
After this event Constantine decided to stop the persecution of Christians.
What is the battle that made him the ruler of the whole empire?
The name given to outsiders by the Romans, who viewed them as uncivilized.
What is barbarian?
The Roman government was characterized by these two ideals while Germanic culture was loosely organized around these three groups.
What are centralized and highly organized, and kings, fighting bands, and family groups?
This northwestern island was not part of the Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire.
What is Britain?