Source Review - Fall of Rome

Source Review - Fall of Rome

Chart of Emperors - Doc A

• Created from various sources

• Generally that means everyone agrees on it

• very little room for doubt

• it's up to the reader to interpret the data

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Vegetius - Doc B

• Lived in the late Roman Empire - 400 CE

• He's writing about the faults of the people that came before him

• Can see the failure in front of him

What does he say?

• Roman military was great.

• Soldiers refused to carry armor and wear helmets

• Soldiers abandoned parade ground drills

• Many soldiers preferred to run rather than fight

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Ammianus Marcellinus - Doc E

• never lived with the Huns

• said they were 'savage', 'wild', 'like unthinking animals'

• shows not who the Huns were, but who the Romans thought the Huns were

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Priscus - Doc E

• Lived with the Huns

• spoke to other Romans living with the Huns

• Other Romans liked living with the Huns - they felt Rome had poor leadership, unjust enforcement of the laws,

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Edward Gibbon - Doc F

• spent 12 years writing about the Fall of Rome

• considered the authority for a long time (he wrote in 1776)

• Earthquakes and floods (tsunamis) hit the Roman Empire

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Peter Stearns - Doc F

• measles was a disease that caused great depopulation

• depopulation - could be people dying or leaving the area (75% of people in Rome)

• it became hard to recruit people into the army - they had to pay outsiders to be in their army - in spite of having a reduced amount of tax revenue

• Stearns is one of four writers who made an AP World History textbook

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