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The fall of the Western Empire

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  • Period: 376 BCE to 800 BCE

    The fall of the Western Empire

    This definition is perhaps still the best one. However, historians disagree on the precise date of the fall of the Western Empire; some will date the fall about the year when the barbarians began a serious move into Roman territory.Others will say that the Western Empire continued a gradual decline until around the year
  • Period: 340 to 397

    Ambrose

    Ambrose was a Roman chosen to be bishop of Milan. He was a statesman and a writer. His hymns, sermons, and religious writings were a blend of Christian and classical ideas.
  • Period: 340 to 420

    Jerome

    Jerome has already been mentioned as the monk who translated the Bible into Latin at the Pope's request.
  • Period: 354 to 430

    Augustine of Hippo

    Augustine of Hippo is perhaps the most famous church father. He became a Christian, studied under Ambrose and wrote many works that have influenced Christians, especially the Confessions, The City of God, and a work Concerning the Trinity.
  • 511

    After the death of Clovis

    After the death of Clovis
    After the death of Clovis the Frankish kingdom had been divided among his four sons. Constant disputes and civil wars resulted in a three-way division of the kingdom in the seventh century. This division established the kingdoms of Neustria, Austrasia, and Burgundy. The Frankish kings of the seventh century do nothing so they are called the Do-Nothing-Kings
  • Period: 527 to 567

    Who ruled the Eastern Empire

    In the sixth century, Emperor Justinian the Great, who ruled the Eastern Empire from 527 to 565, tried to regain much of the old Roman Empire. His general, Belisarius, reconquered all of North Sicily, Italy, Africa, and southern Spain.
  • Period: 540 to 604

    Gregory the Great

    Gregory the Great was an important Roman official when he decided to become a monk in 574. He became Pope in 590 and, as such, was responsible for the spread and control of Christianity in Britain, Gaul, North Africa, Spain, and Italy.
  • 565

    After Justinian's death

    After Justinian's death
    Justinian is perhaps most famous for his codification of Roman law. This sorting out and collecting of Roman laws was called the Corpus Juris Civilis. After Justinian's death in 565, the empire was under attack from all sides. The Germanic tribes as well as the Asiatic tribes and the Slavs (tribes from eastern Europe) began to eat away the empire of Justinian.
  • Period: 871 to 899

    Alfred the Great

    Alfred the Great he Saxon king of Wessex from 871 to 899, came into this setting. He struggled against the Danish invaders, defeated them in 878, and arranged the Danelaw, which restricted the Danes to lands north of the Thames River and left southern England, including London, under Alfred's control. Alfred also insisted that the Danes accept Christianity.
  • Period: 1200 to 1500

    Renaissance began

    The Renaissance began anywhere, depending on the country. The full changes in society, government, and the church that led to the mental attitude and political climate of the Renaissance did not occur in an instant. In this course you will consider the close of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance to be just before 1500.