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Fall of Empires
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Mind Map on Fall of Empires, created by Julia Poggi on 23/02/2016.
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Fall of Empires
Roman
Internal
Inflation
No $ for armies
Bad control over army and citizens
Unsafe empire
Vulnerable
External
Mines ran dry
Taxes raised
Big gap between rich and poor
External
Invasions by Germanic tribes
Sack of Rome in 410
Visogoths
4th crusade
Sack of Constantinople
Huns scared Ostrogoths
Ostrogoths fled and invaded visogoths
Visogoths invaded Roman empire
too big
Islam
too big
Sack of Baghdad
1258
Mongols
Economy devastated
Abbasiads split up into many caliphates
Shia sunni divide
leadership
Shia believed in ali
2 caliphates formed
Ummayads
Abbasids overthow ummayads
Byzantine
Sack of Constantinople
4th crusade
1202
Scatter from city
Broken economy
Loss of learning
Disruption of trade
Bad centralized government
Fall of Constantinople
1453
Ottomans
Frankish Kingdoms
Charlemagne's death
Split up for his sons
loss of centralized gov.
undivided
Viking invasions
Charlemagne's death
Weakened kingdom
Afrcia
Great Zimbabwe
NO ONE KNOWS
Mali, Ghana
Mali conquered Ghana
Songhai conquered Mali
Ran out of gold
salt and gold trade disrupted
Economy devastated
Weak leaders
Eastern city states
Portugese conquest
Portugese wanted control over trade
Indian and Asian monsoon trade
Portugese disrupted trade
Economy devastated
canons
TOO BIG
Centralized government not strong
disloyal troops
no longer roman
very small connection to local gov.
Economy devastated
people fled cities
loss of learning
loss of social structure
trade disrupted
isolation
less money for gov.
armies weak
vulnerable for attack
Higher taxes
No middle class
Mogols
too big
Ghengis Kahn dies
divided into Khanates
policy of tolerance
Mongols become the different cultures
Integrated into different cultures
Divide
No longer a unified Empire
Faded
China
sui
tang
Song
Overthrown by Mongols
Overtaxed peasants
Internal revolts
internal revolts
Overworked
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