Environmental and Public Health Problems

                                                         Environmental and Public Health Problems
             Environmental and public health problems influenced the fall of the Roman Empire. During the Roman Empire, the rich had water sent to them by lead pipes. The death rate became very high because the water was not purified like what the aqueducts did. Even the Colosseum spread disease because of the many deaths. Some of the Roman citizens caught disease from the poor on the streets. Alcohol influenced the death rate too. Environmental and public health problems influenced the fall of the Roman Empire.        

                                                                                   -Jenny Nguyen

The Fall of Rome

                       The Fall of Rome

        By: Sophia Villarreal 

 With the people in your table group,you have to create a blog including the Ten Reasons for the Fall of Rome. You can use your textbook, the internet, and other resources to find information for your blog.Each person in your table group with be responsible for three pages.The pages must include textual evidence and analysis that can support your ideas. The titles for each page will be your main idea, which will be a reason for the Fall of Rome.

  

On each blog page there must be at least one picture, one outside source, and a link. The governor is in charge of coordination for the home page, it's theme, and the continent it's on.

When everyone is done with their blogs, you will look at other blogs and comments on their pages. You will comment on at least four other blogs with four pages in them.
Source:The Fall of the Roman Empire Instructions  




                                                            

Rise in Christianity

Rise in Christianity

Christianity began when St. Paul founded churches in the Asia Minor and in Greece. Later, he began to teach in Rome about Christianity. Most people that converted to Christianity were the poor and slaves. If Christianity was successful, the poor and slaves would have a huge heap to benefit from. Most early emperors had a problem with Christianity and outlawed it. If someone was seized, they usually encountered death, mainly for not worshipping the emperor. When Rome suffered difficulties, emperors often blamed the Christians for it. Later, many people began to defy Christians and they were treated terribly. In AD 64, there was a huge fire and emperor Nero blamed the Christians. After that, there was a large number of deaths. Since there was such a risk of being caught, people started to meet in underground tombs, which was completely out of sight. Large quantities of the poor and slaves began coming to meet there. As Christianity began to grow and spread, in 313 emperor Constantine finally allowed Christianity for the first time. Churches were constructed very quickly all over the empire. Lots of people converted to Christianity and in AD 391 Christianity was actually the only religion allowed. Worshipping other gods became illegal.

                                                                        ~Emily Tran

Excessive Military Spending to Defend the Empire

Excessive Military Spending to Defend the Empire

Barbarian Invasions

                                                                    Barbarian Invasions 

        It was Rome and the Western Empire that felt the full force of the invasions. Rome fell because  German barbarians were ferociously attacking the empire when Rome was weak and out of order. The first ones to invade Rome were the Goths. The Goths were barbarians who were fleeing the Huns, seeking for protection from Rome, which was still standing very strong and powerful at the time. Rome gave protection to the Goths, but later the Goths raised their swords against the Romans themselves. In the late 300's, the Goths started to raid deep into the heart of the empire. Emperors were desperately trying to get rid of the Goths, and in the eastern half, they were successful and pushed them farther back. Next, came the Huns. Once the Goths were pushed back, the Huns started to attack Rome. Huns were strong warriors who came from Central Asia and had moved into Europe. They started to raid southeastern Europe and then attacked kingdoms close by. The Goths came back and nearly destroyed Rome in 410. After the Goths served an example, other barbarian groups including the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons invaded Britain. In addition, the Franks and the Burgundians raided Gaul. A new group called the Vandals started to raid Rome too. The Vandals were deadly and destroyed everything in their path. In the end, the main enemies were the Goths, the Huns, and the Vandals, who all together made the western part of the empire fall.



~Emily Tran

Urban Decay

Urban Decay

          Urban Decay was one of the ten main reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire had to endure a series of elevated payments for the military, so many Romans became poor. The wealthy, owned houses which had designs on colored tiles, glass pane windows, and were completed with marble walls. This type of house was called a domus. The poor however, had to live in 6 floor apartments called "islands" which were very foul smelling. They were also usually unsafe and very torrid. The higher the floor was, the cheaper the price got. The more stairs your family had to climb everyday, the cheaper the price.Those Romans who could not afford to even live in an apartment, were bound to survive on the violent streets as a homeless. Houses that had not become inhabited by people for a long time, usually gave way to criminals. These criminals couldn't take care of the houses properly and they soon collapsed. Rome kept on receiving corrupt emperors who were greedy and only cared about gaining power. These emperors didn't keep Rome's apartments and streets healthy, which also crumbled buildings. Since there were many Romans that were homeless, they ganged up and made the streets dangerous. The criminal rate got higher and higher. Later, many cities started to decay, one of the reasons for the fall of Rome.                                                                                                                            ~Emily Tran