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Romes downfall
Greece falls to Rome
Romes downfall all started with great political disorder. Rome was having alot of problems. Many land owners left the cities and moved into their estates. Small farmers were forced to sell their land. In 212 AD rome granted everyone citizenship so they could collect more tax. Most of the time taxes were paid by grain. This not only effected the poor but the rich and the slaves too.Then rome grew constantly weaker until it broke in 400AD. Another factor could of been christanity and barbarians of Germany, with poor military.
The downfall of the greek empire started with the death of the great emperor Alexander. When he died his generals killed all of his family and divided the empire. The empire broke into macedonia, Egypt, and Syria. In 200BC marked the beginning of Roman involement in Greece. it took them 60 years for them to conqure. Rome was able to defeat Greece by acting on defense first and had much more advanced artilary.
Dark ages
Greek examples for american culture
Roman examples for american culture
Rome gave us the Rotunda which we have in our high school today.
we also learned about plumbing and toliets. Romans first started using bath's and toliets fro good hygiene like we do today.
the greeks were first to have the olympics, we still carry on the same tradition with similar games
the capital building haves pillars just like the ancient greeks did
Greeks was first to have democratic government. thats what we have today.
U.S. supreme court haves pillers, just like the ancient greeks had
Dark ages is referes to because 2 of the most pwerfull empires came crumbling down. he dark ages/middle also means midieval. Life in this time was very hard. most didnt know how to read or write the only thing the kept them going was romes downfall christanity. Since rome and greece both fell and they were the only ones who could read and write, and the middle ages didnt know how to do that. they didnt even suspect these conditions to get better no wounder they called this the drak ages. the only good part was columbus came during that time.
The romans were first to use the Roman numerals. even though we dont use that in everyday math, we still use it for years like thge superbowl uses
we also learned about roads from the romans. When we first started building them they looked like the roman ones.
