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In the 200's A.D., Rome's economy started to break. Government weakened and law and order began to be meaningless to the people.
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Severans began to rule and focused more on protection than anything else. But when the last Severan died, the government weakened, and people began to compete and fight for the throne. (235 A.D.)
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In 284 A.D., a general became an emperor, and his name was Diocletian. To help the economy, he split rome into four parts since ruling rome was to much for one person. He made rules to help, but nobody listened.
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In 312 A.D., after the long period of fighting for the throne, Constantine became emperor. He made many orders to help the economy. one of them was that the sons of workers had to continue and take on their fathers job once he died or retired. he also moved the capital to Byzantium where he built the city. The new city he named, Constantinople.
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in 337 A.D., Constantine died, and fighting began yet again for the throne.
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In the late 300's A.D., the Huns entered Europe, which scared the Visigoths, making them ask Rome for protection. After they fought, romans enslaved some of the Visigoths and made tensions worse.
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In 378 A.D., the enslaved Visigoths revolted against the Romans and won their land. Soon most Germanic tribes knew Rome couldn't protect itself and started heading into Rome..
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In 395 A.D., after a Emperor named Theodosius decided that Rome was two much for one person, he split Rome into two halves of the Empire.
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In 406 A.D., the Germanic groups crossed the frozen Rhine River and entered Gaul, a part of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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in 410 A.D., a Visigoth leader known as Alaric, conquered Rome with his tribe and together they burnt Rome's records and looted their treasury. This was also the first time Rome had been conquered in 800 years.
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in 455 A.D., the Germanic group known as the Vandals entered Rome. They went into all of the Roman houses, found anything and everything that was valuable, then destroyed and burned it all.
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In 476 A.D., A Germanic general named Odoacer overthrew Romulus Augustulus, and took control of western Rome.
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In 550 A.D. the Western Roman Empire had faded almost completely however, the Germanic rulers kept some of their traditions and used them.
