Book of the Ancient Romans chapters 24 & 25

Jerome

"The City which had taken all the world was itself taken ... The Roman world is falling."

Leo I

"Thus far shalt thou come, and no farther."

410

Alaric led the Visigoths to sack Rome *study this for exams*

Huns

Asiatic people who attacked Goths

Goths

Germanic tribe; alternate name for the Visigoths, settled on the northern shore of the Black Sea

Tacitus

Roman historian

Rome declined sharply

after Constantine's death ____ ________ _______

Augustine

bishop of Hippo; author of *The City of God*

Leo I

bishop of Rome who confronted Atilla

Cassidorius

collected and preserved many Greek and Latin manuscripts, founded a monastery that preserved them

Theodosius

emperor know as "Lover of peace and of the Goths", the last emperor to rule over both the East and West

Julian the Apostate

emperor who converted to paganism, was appointed by his uncle Constantius to share in the responsibilities of emperor

Valens

emperor who fought Goths at Battle of Adrianople; agreed to let the Goths enter Roman territory, killed by the Goths

Odoacer

general of the Roman army who deposed Romulus Augustus

Theodoric the Great

king of the East Goth kingdom

Romulus Augustus

last Roman emperor, deposed by his own Germanic general, Odoacer

Alaric

leader of the Goths that captured Rome

Attila

leader of the Huns, "The Scourge of God"

Vandals

tribe that ruled harbors of North Africa, had invaded Spain and then North Africa