3.3 Graeco-Roman culture

3.3 Graeco-Roman culture
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3.3 Graeco-Roman culture

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3.3 Graeco-Roman culture
Learning objectives:
  • You can write down some features of Roman culture.
  •  You can explain how Graeco-Roman culture spread and what consequences that had for Germanic culture.
  •  You can describe how the Roman Empire came to an end.

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Free farmers
Slaves 
Merchants and crafspeople 
Proletarians 
Elite 

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Roman culture
  •  Romans admired the Greek culture, they adopted many aspects of Greek architecture, sculpture, poetry and religion.
  •  We speak of a Graeco-Roman culture.

Roman customs 
Toga, gladiator fights and public bathhouses 

Roman law applied throughout the Empire 

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Meeting local cultures
Graeco-Roman culture spread across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East (because of all the conquests)
People were allowed to keep their own religion and culture.

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Meeting local cultures
People outside of Italy started dressing like Romans, learning the language. 

This could lead to a better position. 

Germanic tribes changed a lot through contact with the Romans. 

Learned reading and writing, religion changed and they got positions within the Roman army.

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Name two examples of the Greco-Roman culture.

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Germanic culture changed in the first century AD.
A
Temples were build in Germanic areas
B
The local population grew
C
The Germanic peoples developed writing
D
The Roman Empire expanded

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Put the term together with the correct meaning.
allowing other cultures and opinions
spread of the Greco-Roman culture
Greco-Roman culture
Greco-Roman
romanisation
classical culture
tolerance
culture mixed culture of Greeks and Romans in the Roman empire

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The collapse of the Roman Empire
  • The Empire (around 200AD) had some big problems:
1) The army was too small for the long borders
2) Taxes were so high so farmers abandoned their farms -->  agricultural production fell 
3) Soldiers felt a bigger connection to their general than their emperor
4) Power struggles between emperors 

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The collapse of the Roman Empire
The collapse of the Roman Empire
  • The Roman Empire split into two (395): Western Roman Empire and Eastern Roman Empire (so two emperors)
  • The Eastern Empire survived until 1453
  • The Western Roman Empire fell earlier (because of these issues). The Empire was also invaded by peoples such as the Visigoths and the Vandals. They were looking for farmland, protection.
  • The Great Migration


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The collapse of the Roman Empire
  • The Western Empire fell due to this migration (plundering, new kingdoms etc.)
  • Collecting taxes was hard and the empire wasn't united
  • 476: Last Western emperor was overthrown 
  • Start of the Middle Ages

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Write down the four big problems in the Roman Empire in the 4th century

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Put the events about  
in the correct chronological order.

Drag the oldest event to nr 1 and the youngest to nr 5.
start of the Empire
Fall of Rome and the western Roman empire
start of the republic
Barbarian invasions
death of 
Julius Caesar

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