World History Chapter 12 Unit 2

The Visigoths' defeat of the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople in 378 was significant because _________________.

it indicated to all the Germanic tribes that the Roman Empire was weak

After the Western Roman Empire collapsed, how much longer did the Eastern Roman Empire endure?

Another 1,000 years

Who was the emperor that moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium?

Constantine

_________ were a fierce, nomadic tribe from Asia.

Huns

Who deposed Emperor Romulus Augustulus and became the first King of Italy around AD 476?

Odoacer

__________ were an eastern Germanic tribe that revolted against the Roman army.

Ostrogoth

Increased financial needs, increased taxes, devaluation of currency, inflation, and wasteful spending by emperors were all factors in the collapse of the western part of the _____________.

Roman Empire

476 is given as the date of the fall of the Western Roman Empire because _________________.

Rome was captured by the Ostrogoths lead by Odoacer in that year