* Treated their enemies very well after defeating them
- Provide soldiers
- Obey
+keep their own religion
+ Roman army protected them
+ leaders were allowed to have a say in Roman politics
+ citizenshp rights
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Julius Caesar
* Strong general
* argument with the senate -> civil war
* Army chose for the general
* Dictator
* = absolute ruler
* Senators angry> Murderd Caesar
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Augustus
* 27 BC. won the civil war
* Kept seante -> not mucht to say
* Conculs chosen by himself
* Imperial Rome
* Pax Romana
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Roman administration
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Countryside
* Free farmers
* Group became smaller 2 century BC.
* Wars -> No time for farming
* Big landowners
- High-ranking positions in the army -> conquered area's
- bought land from the poor farmers
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City
* Poor farmers ->
proletarians
* Rich -> Elite
* Slaves
Property
* Women
Inferior to men
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Roman culture
* Greek-Roman culture
* Same gods
Zeus -> Jupiter
* Temple (columns)
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Problems in the Roman Empire
1. The Army was too small for the big empire
2. Taxes were too high -> the Empire less money
3. Long time in the army -> more connection with the general than the emperor
4. Struggle of power in deciding who should take over power.
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The Empire splitting
395
The Empire split into two in 395
Eastern Roman Empire
Western Roman Empire
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The Great Migration
Borders unguarded
European tribes invade the Empire -> The huns
Other tribes fled
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The fall of the Western Roman Empire
476
Invaded tribes plunderd
Less united -> difficult to collect taxes -> economy declined
476 last Western Roman emperor was overthrown
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The Eastern Roman Empire?
1453 Constantinopel conquers by the Turks
Protected betweek the deserts and the mountains
Tegenwoordig is de Hagia Sophia (Aya Sophia) één van de grootste moskeeën ter wereld. In de tijd van het Oost-Romeinse Rijk was dit de grootste christelijke kerk ter wereld.
Lesson duration is: 50 min
