HY 101 Study Guide - Edward Gibbon, Diocletian
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Exam: review sheet, slides and lecture guides via elearning, bring blank exam books, key terms and big questions. Edward gibbon: decline and fall of the roman empire (1776) New approaches: barbarians and romans, crisis and recovery, gradual transformation. The germanic world: farmers, traders, warriors, federates. Military revolution: the economy, taxes, and the army, the barracks emperors . Diocletian: was the son of a freed slave, rose through the ranks militarily. Defense in depth : deployed the army in more effective ways, allow long frontiers to be relatively thinly defended, pull heaviest troops to inner lines, kinda like a zone defense in football o. Barbarians and romans: the huns, visigoths, a nomadic people, sweep in to central europe from asia unexpectedly, soon they cut deals and became allies with romans and other barbarians, attila (means daddy ) Leader of the huns, seen in history trying to make marriage alliances with the romans.
