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2. Many poor Romans worked in sweat-shop conditions and lived on government hand-outs and?
3. Wealthy Roman politicians spent tax dollars on tourism by going to
At first, Rome brought trade, civil rights, and prosperity to foreign lands. Cicero forewarned that Rome couldn't sustain
that if the rich didn't stop what?
5. Climate change forced Asiatic tribes to the
6. Taxation was unfairly distributed and ordinary Romans bore the brunt who was exempt?
7. Diocletian's reforms were successful for a time. What did he do that no Roman emperor had done before?
By the 4 Century, No amount of reforms could deal with the
9. Constantine saw a sign "In Hoc Sign o vinces"...What did it mean?
10 Constantine legalized Christianity and declared himself a Christian. Did the Roman people inherit another lunatic?
11. What was one of the most important moments in the history of the Roman Empire?
12. What was "going on with all the Christians? Why were they fighting?
13. Pagans thought the Christians were nuts. "Why would one live in misery just to
14. In the centuries after Constantine.. Christianity is the that sticks the empire together.
15. In 378 AD Emperor Valens at Adrianople learned a terrible lesson. They could not rule by military might alone, they would
have to
16. The Roman elite felt threatened and
17. How did the Romans describe the Huns?
18. Alaric was intelligent, spoke Latin and wanted peaceful with the Romans
19. The barbarians wanted when they were turned down they attacked the Romans.
20. What is a popular misconception about the Germans (according to the historians)?
21. What happened to the central bureaucracy in the west?
22. When the central government did little except tax the states, what did Roman nobles do?
23. With the western Roman world collapsing it drove the people into the arms of the
24. Who kept the language and tradition of the Roman empire alive?
25. Where does Rome's ideas live on?
26. We often look back on the greatness of Rome and tend to forget about its what?