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law of Rome→ set the equal law to every Roman citizen ~ innocent until you're proven guilty ● ● ● ● Interaction with environment: Alps mountain on the North→→ natural barrier Mediterranean Sea- navy & trade & transportation Culture: Open mind to different religion (before the rise of Christianity) Propaganda→ view everyone else as barbarian Latin written language that communicated all information across the empire Economic: In the empire ~Britain wool ~ Gaul→ grape ~ Egypt→→ wheat Out the Empire ~ silk road ~ only thing Rome can trade with other people is silver→ money keeping going out and no cash coming in→ trade is off balance Taxes ~ important topic to Roman Empire→ need lots of taxes (money) to support the trade with other regions ~ good if you live in Rome→ money is paying for those public service ~ bad if live in other places→ pay taxes to build those things that you're not using Technology: Monumental architecture ~ build all over the Empire, very popular ~ watch gladiators fight each other or wild animals to death Roads ~improve trade ~move military quicker Aqueducts help the form of public bath - solve the problem of human waste Split in two Rome split in two at 285 CE Capital of western empire→ Rome Capital of eastern empire→ Byzantium (Constantinople) String of lousy emperors No longer afford to maintain a military with just Romans start taking in the barbarians to serve in the army Christianity: Judaism: ~ first start in Judea ~ believed they were a "special people" who had a convent with God -believed time is moving toward the end of the world→ Messiah will save them ● ● ● ● Judaism and Roman Empire: ~ conflicted with Roman Empire ~ didn't view emperor as a God they're monotheistic rebelled because of the taxes issue → Jews were driven from the empire in 135CE because they revolted Birth of Christianity: ~ start by Jesus ~ allow gentles (non-Jew) believe→ spread this religion to other places and people Why did you want to believe in Christianity: ~ life is hard ~ can't count on emperor ~"God" will care about everyone, but emperor only cares about the city Rome →more and more citizens convert to Christianity Spread of Christianity: ~ apostles (Jesus' first followers) spread the idea all over the empire ~ spread gospels→ book of Jesus' life ~ gospels present a vision where the "meek will inherit the earth" and salvation is possible for everyone, regardless of social class challenges the power of The Roman Empire Rome become a Christianity Empire: 312 CE Constantine wins battle that he believes is ordained by God 313 CE- Edict of Milan→ Constantine stated that Christianity will be tolerated 325 CE Nicene Creed leaders of different places meet to state the outlines of what you must believe in order to be a Christian 337 CE→ Baptism of Constantine- first Christian emperor Constantinople: Where much of Western learning is stored and spreads to the Near & Middle East Theodosian code: 435 CE Makes Christianity the only legal protected religion Anyone who's not Christian is considered a "heretic" and may be legally persecuted by the Roman Empire Invaders: Attack Rome from Germany and central Asia "Pagan" because they're not Christian West Rome falls: Falls at 476 when a German warrior deposed Roman Empire Why did it fall: ~ empire splits into two ~Christianity focus beyond Rome and this life financial problems ~barbarians in the army want "a piece of Roman pie" ~ general decay of order and control