May 6

Read Page: 173-176
Answer Numbers: 1,3,4,5
Worksheet: 4

1.

• Inflation- a drastic drop in the value of money coupled with a rise in prices, which was one of the factors that prompted the weakening of Rome's economy.
• Mercenaries- foreign soldiers that fought in exchange for money that the Roman government recruited in order to defend themselves against increasing threats to the empire. Mercenaries felt little sense of loyalty to the empire.
• Diocletian- a strong-willed army leader that became the new emperor of Rome in 284 A.D. He limited personal freedoms but also restored order and increased the strength of the empire.
• Constantinople- the city, originally called Byzantium, that was the capital on the Bosphorus Strait. The city was eventually renamed Constantinople, after Constantine, the commander that relocated the capital in the first place. After his death, the empire would be divided again, with the East surviving and the West falling.
• Attila- a powerful chieftain that the Huns united under. They terrorized both parts of the empire but eventually failed due to famine and disease.

3. The main internal causes of the empire's decline were hostile tribes, inflation, food shortages and disease, and overworked soil.

4. Diocletian succeeded in preserving the empire by doubling the size of the Roman army and divided the empire into the Greek-speaking East and the Latin-speaking West.

5. Germanic tribes began invading the Roman Empire in order to flee from the Huns who were destroying their region.