After Rome 500-700

Today we took some more notes on the downward spiral in Rome

After Rome 500-700

The Germanic barbarians

• Barbarian warlords and the families who assimilated to Rome culture became nobles and aristocrats

•  Germanic tribes who ruled former roman lands sought to conquer and assimilate

•  other barbarian peoples who lived beyond frontiers

• The Anglosaxons invaded Britain
• Most of them converted to Christianity
• The most powerful Germanic tribe were the franks
• Eastern Europe
• The ere continued on while the west was now divided up by the barbarian tribes
• When the emperor Justinian came into power in 527, he decided to reunite the entire Roman Empire by reconquering the western territories
• Justinian succeeded for a time but the land he re took was son conquered by a new barbarian tribe and massive plague came

• Byzantine emperors aw themselves as the head of the Christian church

• Preserved Greco-Roman art architecture philosopher and writing deserter much of it being non Christian

• Justinian built a massive domed Hagia Sophia in Constantinople considered the most glorious church on earth