ML100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Household Deity, Edward Gibbon, Lead Poisoning
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Jan 13- the roman empire and its fall . The roman empire was mainly free of foreign attack or domestic crises. Stretched from wall of hadrian (border between eng. and scotland) to the persian gulf. Following the death of constantine, everything went downhill, until 476 when the last emperor was deposed. Amidst battle with the germanic people, there were many economic issues, mostly rooted in a declining population base, insufficient in its maintenance of the economic and political systems. Non-romans took over most of the army base. Roman administrative influences, even their vocabulary: diocese- area of bishop"s jurisdiction- administrative. Theodosis (emperor) made christianity the official religion in the year 380. He was christian, but had his own doubts and conflicts. Ambrose of milan (arch bishop) and ^ butted heads, leading to a civil uprising, with troops losing control and killing 30k. Theodosis was told to repent and ambrose was like whatever you"ll be ex-communicated, but.
