Outline
I. Why did Rome fall?
II. Why did Rome last?
III. The crisis of the third century
IV. The fourth century “miracle”
V.  Barbarian invasions?
VI. The fall of the western Roman empire
 

Terms from today’s lecture
Edward Gibbon
Hypertrophy
Byzantine Greeks
Constantinople
Pax Romana
Caracalla (188-217)
Ravenna
Constantine
Istanbul
Gauls
Visigoths
Ostrogoths
Tacitus (50-120)
Huns
Valens (328-78)
Theodosius I (347-95)
Alaric (370-410)
Attila (reigned 434-53)
Ricimer (active as “kingmaker” 456-72)
Odoacer (433-93)
Ostrogoths
Theodoric the Great (454-526)
Justinian (483-565)
Lombards