The Collapse of the Roman Empire: Dark Ages or Late Antiquity?
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- Created on: 09-06-19 10:51
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- The Collapse of the Roman Empire
- Late Antiquity/ Continuation
- Historians
- Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity AD 150-750
- Influence of Rome in the Islamic World
- Latinate influences on Arabic
- Postal horses to spread government information
- Inspired by the Roman 'Veredus'
- Postal horses to spread government information
- Mosques in Damascus
- Built in former temples of Jupiter
- Decorated with Roman mosaics
- Latinate influences on Arabic
- Influence of Rome in the Islamic World
- Peter Brown, The World of Late Antiquity AD 150-750
- Economic transitions
- Collapse of Rome was over a longer time period
- Taxation and coinage turned to bartering
- Cash based economy to a service based economy
- Taxation and coinage turned to bartering
- Collapse of Rome was over a longer time period
- Social Transitions
- Professional standing army changed to feudal vassalage
- Rise of Villages and Rural manpower
- Transition from slavery to peasantry
- Roman roads on the grid system develop into a winding system
- Population growth increases the amount of villages
- Lingua Franca
- Latinate dialects still used in Churches/ Laws
- People's Latin debased and was influenced by local vernaculars
- Development of European languages
- Transition from polytheistic to monotheistic ideology
- Historians
- Dark Ages/ Breakdown
- Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Expands the idea of the 'Dark Ages'
- Rome collapses and everything is ruined
- Loss of the ability to read Greek
- Loss of the knowledge of Ancient Empires and philosophy
- Loss of written records and histories
- Myopic view
- Loss of education
- Expands the idea of the 'Dark Ages'
- 'Barbarian' invasions
- Displacement of political power from Rome
- Polycentric system of rule, no central power
- Displacement of political power from Rome
- Economic Collapse
- Taxation no longer passed from provinces to the centre
- Less coinage in circulation
- Loss of long distance trade networks
- Taxation no longer passed from provinces to the centre
- Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Late Antiquity/ Continuation
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