HIST 2932 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Barbarian Kingdoms, Arcadius, Romulus Augustulus
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With the death of theodosius i, his two sons took over the eastern and western empires. Lecture 12: barbarian migrations/fall of the empire [textbook = ch. At the age of 11, honorious inherited the western empire. At the age of 18, arcadius inherited the eastern empire. The splitting of the two empires corresponded with, and was justified by, the linguistic differences of the eastern and western empires. In the east, greek was the language of communication. In the west, latin was the language of communication. The eastern empire, with constantinople as its capital, decided to buy off barbarian peoples who settled within the empire, and likely asked them to move further west. As such, the western empire was the empire that had to deal with massive migrations of barbarian peoples, and had to accommodate many barbarian people as a result.
