3.3 Graeco-Roman culture

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3.3 Graeco-Roman culture

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.

Free farmers

Slaves 

Merchants and crafspeople 

Proletarians 

Elite 

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 

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.

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.

Name two examples of the Greco-Roman culture.

Germanic culture changed in the first century AD.

1. Temples were build in Germanic areas
2. The local population grew
3. The Germanic peoples developed writing
4. The Roman Empire expanded

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

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 

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

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
  

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

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