Fall of Empires

Fall of Empires

Roman
1. Internal
  1. Inflation
    1. No $ for armies
      1. Bad control over army and citizens
        Unsafe empire
        Vulnerable
        External
    2. Mines ran dry
    3. Taxes raised
      1. Big gap between rich and poor
2. External
  1. Invasions by Germanic tribes
    1. Sack of Rome in 410
      1. Visogoths
    2. 4th crusade
      1. Sack of Constantinople
    3. Huns scared Ostrogoths
      1. Ostrogoths fled and invaded visogoths
        Visogoths invaded Roman empire
3. too big
Islam
1. too big
2. Sack of Baghdad
  1. 1258
  2. Mongols
  3. Economy devastated
  4. Abbasiads split up into many caliphates
3. Shia sunni divide
  1. leadership
    1. Shia believed in ali
  2. 2 caliphates formed
    1. Ummayads
      1. Abbasids overthow ummayads
Byzantine
1. Sack of Constantinople
  1. 4th crusade
  2. 1202
  3. Scatter from city
    1. Broken economy
      1. Loss of learning
      2. Disruption of trade
      3. Bad centralized government
2. Fall of Constantinople
  1. 1453
  2. Ottomans
Frankish Kingdoms
1. Charlemagne's death
  1. Split up for his sons
    1. loss of centralized gov.
      1. undivided
2. Viking invasions
  1. Charlemagne's death
  2. Weakened kingdom
Afrcia
1. Great Zimbabwe
  1. NO ONE KNOWS
2. Mali, Ghana
  1. Mali conquered Ghana
    1. Songhai conquered Mali
  2. Ran out of gold
    1. salt and gold trade disrupted
      1. Economy devastated
  3. Weak leaders
3. Eastern city states
  1. Portugese conquest
    1. Portugese wanted control over trade
      1. Indian and Asian monsoon trade
    2. Portugese disrupted trade
      1. Economy devastated
    3. canons
TOO BIG
1. Centralized government not strong
  1. disloyal troops
    1. no longer roman
  2. very small connection to local gov.
Economy devastated
1. people fled cities
  1. loss of learning
  2. loss of social structure
2. trade disrupted
  1. isolation
  2. less money for gov.
    1. armies weak
      1. vulnerable for attack
  3. Higher taxes
    1. No middle class
Mogols
1. too big
2. Ghengis Kahn dies
  1. divided into Khanates
3. policy of tolerance
  1. Mongols become the different cultures
    1. Integrated into different cultures
      1. Divide
        No longer a unified Empire
        Faded
China
1. sui
  1. tang
    1. Song
      1. Overthrown by Mongols
    2. Overtaxed peasants
      1. Internal revolts
  2. internal revolts
    1. Overworked

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