THE RISE AND FALL OF ROME

Location

• Tiber River and the
• Mediterranean Sea
• provided easy transportation,
• a way to trade and a reason to
• strengthen Rome's Navy

Military Prowess

• Well trained and advanced
• army along with Rome's Navy
• allowed Rome to conquer land
• quickly and effectively

Ambition

• Roman military leaders were
• constantly conquering new
• territory, giving Rome
• immense wealth and
• influence

PUNIC WARS

• The Punic Wars ended with
• the destruction of Carthage
• making Rome the strongest
• naval force in the
• Mediterranean

Internal Unrest

• Soldiers bgan to be loyal to
• their generals not the state.
• Slaves were revolting
• and killing their masters.

JULIUS CEASER

• Attempted to rule Rome
• unofficially for his own
• benefit.
• Caused a civil war to avoid
• standing trial for consulship.

PAX ROMANA

• 200 years of peace when
• Romans advanced culturally
• and technologically.
• The wealthy Romans were
• oppressing the poor with taxes.

TETRARCHY

• Rome was divided into two
• empires and ruled by four
• kings

RELIGION

• Emperor Constantine
• legalized Christianity,
• shifting power away from
• the emperor

WESTERN EMPIRE FALLS

• Germanic barbarian tribes
• and Persian troops invade
• and destroy West Rome

EASTERN Empire renamed

• Eastern Rome renamed it
• self the Byzantine Empire,
• ending the Roman empire