how did life change in the west after the fall of the roman empire?
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Maybe this link will help. There is alot of information on here. I only had a glimpse through, but it may help you:\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/gibbon-fall.html
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During the time of the prophet, 400 A.D. Egyot, Rome, Persia were declining and ravaged by war. The great library of Alexandria was all but destroyed. China was secluded and safe. So was India. In fact there is historical prof that the Prophet even came to India like Jesus before him to seek knowledge in the Universities of Nalanda and Takshashila
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Western imperialism produced various reactions in Africa and Asia. The first response was simply to try to drive the foreigners away. The general failure of this traditionalist response then led large masses to accept European rule, which did bring some improvements. A third response was the modernist response of Western-educated natives, who were repelled by Western racism and attracted by Western ideals of national independence and economic progress. Thus, imperialism and reactions to it spread Western civilization to non-Western lands." hope this helps
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It stands to reason that the Gladiators of the Roman era were smaller than the football players of today.\n\nDiet, life expectancy, being major factors/evidences.\n\nAlso, the training methods and unprocessed foods would have left them much lighter than our footballers.
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well, the "whole Jesus thing" had nothing to do with the life of a female slave in Roman time. anyhow, it all depended upon how the slave owner treated you. they did not have any rights, but they could earn their freedom and actually make a significant life for themselves.\n\nthe Roman Empire really made so many significant advances. they took what they learned from groups of people all over the world- including the Greeks & Etruscans. they then molded it into something. they really advanced what they absorbed from other peoples. they were great in that aspect & with all their innovations. they weren't perfect, obviously, or they would never have fallen!\n\nyou really do need to read your text book if this is a homework question because there are many specific answers and some vary depending upon the source, especially to the second question.
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In the past, this was not an issue. the loser was slaughtered wholesale. Rome was one of the first (or most successful) at assimilating conquered peoples. Successful assimilation means you must force, or entice, the conquered peoples to adopt your language, culture and customs. what naturally happens then is a blend of the two - which is also one reason that Rome fell (among many). Because if you are too successful as a conqueror, then you lose critical mass for your own culture.  \n\nYou could draw a parallel with America since they are (or have been in the past) so successful that they draw peoples from different cultures at such a rate that the 'original culture' is overwhelmed with external cultures [like cuban, mexican, other South American cultures, Canadian, and finally Asian influx (including India) via H1B visas and other legitimate immigration].\nForget about crimes and criminality - that is a temporary conflict between two cultures. Think longer term - like 100 yrs being equivalent to one year. Then you will see your own answer to your question. \n\nStudy the past or be condemned to repeat it. In particular, start with Persia, Egypt and progress through the Germanic tribes and the Normans.  You will get a fantastic view into man's inhumanity and the temporal nature of what is considered criminal and grotesque in a given culture.  You may also come to a realization that every species has its time at the top and then some other species will correct the last 'correction'.  We won't be the last.
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Man is a great general and is loved by the emperor as a son.  Emperor is killed by heir apparent and when general refuses to pledge allegience to new emperor his wife and child are killed, his estate pillaged and he is taken in the woods to be executed.  He escapes but becomes a slave and in turn a gladiator.  He must then fight his way through the ranks of the smaller venues to reach Rome and avenge his family.
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Before the Roman empire came it was called Byzantium. Than it was turned into Constantinople. today it is called Istanbul. it is the land connecting turkey and Greece.\n\nhttp://www.google.com/maphp?hl=en&tab=wl&q=\n\nIam not sure if this web site will work but if you go to google click on map, than type in istanbul on search it will bring you to it!\n\nHere is another site \n\nhttp://www.roman-emperors.org/sest01.htm\n\nThis tells you about the byzantine empire!\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire
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it changed early peoples from being nomadic tribes to civilized cultures, they then developed irrigation and became societies, then went on to become empires. \n\nif you don't have to follow your food year-round then you have more time to aspire.
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It changed to socialism, a popular form of economics in Europe.  It's a cross between communism and capitalism.  There also was a big black market in the Soviet Union anyways.  Only around 5% of the population of the Soviet Union belonged to the Communist party.
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Sure they did.  Things were different then.  God flooded the earth once to destroy wickedness, but he will not destroy it by flood again.  He is an unchangable being, but he changes the rules for men from time to time.  We no longer live by the law of Moses, for Christ fulfilled it.  Now we live by Christs law.  Likewise, we no longer marry our brothers and sisters.  That is something that has changed.\n\nScientifically, you might also consider that genes degrade over time.  As the human population has aged, our genes have also aged.  What once may have been an acceptable health practice (having children with brothers or sisters) is now dangerous.  There is a high liklyhood of miscarriage and of retardation in children parented by siblings.  Was this the case early in human history?  Maybe not.\n\nAlso, it is no longer socially acceptable.  We live in a world filled with people.  Adam and Eve were the only ones.  Was there a difference?  You bet.
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This is a very complex question, and very large books have been written on it.  I would say these things did:\n\nCorruption of the hierarchy:  Roman emperors were all powerful, and could do anything they wanted.  How much time do you think went to running the empire if they could (and did) have massive parties all the time, and could spend massive amounts of tax money to build statues of themselves.\n\nDecline in moral values:  toward the end of the empire, many people were thieves and prostitutes, who add nothing to the structure of a society.\n\nDecline in public health:  Roman plumbing was made of lead, so it stands to reason that wealthy people who could afford plumbing (including emperors) were suffering from a degree of lead poisoning, makind them even more insane than before.\n\nUrban Decay:  Much like the inner citties of major American metropolitan areas, urban decay places a huge burden on the economics of a country by producing nothing and requireing welfare programs to keep its residents from rebelling.\n\nMassive Army Upkeep:  The Romans had to have a huge army to protect its borders and to quell unrest in the many unhappy country that really didn't want to be part of the empire.\n\nHope this helps...you will want to beef up the info I have given here with outside sources.
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Well for starters most okies during the dust bowl headed west to California. Where they were given the name okies. Side fact: the word okie back then was almost kinda like the N word today. If you want a good way to map this I would map it closely to the current day Route 66. That goes to california and was probably the closest to the route they used. Most people left in trucks or even tractors with sides and rails built on the back. Many times there wer people leaving by trucks with cattle or horses tied to the back to bring them along. (they couldnt go fast enough to harm the animals) Many of the poorest people left in almost a type of wagon pulled by horses or oxen, or they left by horseback. Many people left by groups. Not just one family but several families together. They had problems like the dust storms would become so thick they could not see to travel. And would have to stop and wait or some continued on and became lost. Others that waited out the storms would often have to dig their transportation of of the dirt when the storm was over. The dust storms of back then blew away most of the soil and the crops. People had very little to eat. People died from lack of food to bad water. Insects where everywhere during this time. Many people found it very hard to travel simply because they ran into swarms of grasshoppers or locust that had had come to eat whatever was left. Or they simply just had problems pushing through the dirt in which in many places people have said was pilled up in difts just like snow would. Sometimes 10 feet high. Plus when they got to California finally they were met with the local people hating them. The people thought the okies where dirty and nasty. And most people didnt find the jobs they had thought would be there when they got to California. Instead many times towns had signs that read "Go away Okies! There are no jobs for you here!" Many people ended up living in what they called "Okie camps" they were normally on the outskirts of towns and many of the people that had came up from the dust bowl region ended up in these. They were just collections of all these people that had came to California to find there was nothing for them. No jobs, no homes, nothing. And they were forced to live togther in tents and make shift shelters till they found work. Sometimes local people would come by and give them food, water and occasionaly an odd job or two. Many people who left during the dust bowl eventually returned when the dust storms ended because their situations in the new places really were not any better than what they had left behind. But not everyone left Oklahoma/Kansas during the dustbowl. It was the worst in western and nothern Oklahoma and up into parts of south western Kansas. My family stayed through it all. If you want to see what this was like I suggest renting the movie The Grapes of Wrath. It's old and it's in black and white but you will see what it was like and it's about going from oklahoma to california during the dust bowl. Hope this helped.
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Very Interesting. I have see variations of this before and it is intriguing indeed. I am curious if other currency from around the world would depict similar tragedies. Or perhaps that was a little "Final Destination" action going on there.\n\nUnfortunately, All systems eventually fail. All great Governments Fall.\n\nSee:    Rome Empire\n\n\n\nGreat Web-site! Reminds me of "Mad Magazine!"
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100 A.D.\nThe Roman connection\nThe Romans also did much to spread glassmaking technology. With its conquests, trade relations, road building, and effective political and economical administration, the Roman Empire created the conditions for the flourishing of glassworks across western Europe and the Mediterranean. During the reign of the emperor Augustus, glass objects began to appear throughout Italy, in France, Germany and Switzerland. Roman glass has even been found as far afield as China, shipped there along the silk routes.\n\nIt was the Romans who began to use glass for architectural purposes, with the discovery of clear glass (through the introduction of manganese oxide) in Alexandria around AD 100. Cast glass windows, albeit with poor optical qualities, thus began to appear in the most important buildings in Rome and the most luxurious villas of Herculaneum and Pompeii.\n\nWith the geographical division of the empires, glass craftsmen began to migrate less, and eastern and western glassware gradually acquired more distinct characteristics. Alexandria remained the most important glassmaking area in the East, producing luxury glass items mainly for export. The world famous Portland Vase is perhaps the finest known example of Alexandrian skills. In Rome's Western empire, the city of Köln in the Rhineland developed as the hub of the glassmaking industry, adopting, however, mainly eastern techniques. Then, the decline of the Roman Empire and culture slowed progress in the field of glassmaking techniques, particularly through the 5th century. Germanic glassware became less ornate, with craftsmen abandoning or not developing the decorating skills they had acquired.\n\n11th century\nSheet glass skills\nThe 11th century also saw the development by German glass craftsmen of a technique - then further developed by Venetian craftsmen in the 13th century - for the production of glass sheets. By blowing a hollow glass sphere and swinging it vertically, gravity would pull the glass into a cylindrical "pod" measuring as much as 3 metres long, with a width of up to 45 cm. While still hot, the ends of the pod were cut off and the resulting cylinder cut lengthways and laid flat. Other types of sheet glass included crown glass (also known as "bullions"), relatively common across western Europe. With this technique, a glass ball was blown and then opened outwards on the opposite side to the pipe. Spinning the semi-molten ball then caused it to flatten and increase in size, but only up to a limited diameter. The panes thus created would then be joined with lead strips and pieced together to create windows. Glazing remained, however, a great luxury up to the late Middle Ages, with royal palaces and churches the most likely buildings to have glass windows. Stained glass windows reached their peak as the Middle Ages drew to a close, with an increasing number of public buildings, inns and the homes of the wealthy fitted with clear or coloured glass decorated with historical scenes and coats of arms.\n\n\nPossibly, but high quality didn't emerge until 1,000 years later.
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1.) The Eastern Roman Empire, having Rome and Italy in it, necessarily had higher levels of corruption, and a lower percentage of citizens in the legions. \n2.) The Western Roman Empire, was effectively started by Constantine, who was the chief influence that caused the Roman Empire to take Christianity as its state religion.\n\nReligion played a huge role in both empires - in the East, successor states in the area generally did not survive unless they adopted Christianity (especially when powerful rulers such as Charlemagne specifically went around thumping pagans). In the West, the Roman empire became the Byzantine Empire (although it was never referred to as such by its denizens), and it's emperors often felt that they were the head of the Church. Byzantine Emperors went so far as to depose popes that got in their way (when they could).\n\nFor your questions:\n+ how did the differences in what happened bring them back together for the Crusades/How did the similarities:\n\nThe Byzantines and the European states worked together during the Crusades for differing reasons. As most of Europe was thoroughly Christianized, they ran into a paradox: Christian leaders weren't supposed to fight amongst one another, thus, they should be fighting infidels. This led to a lot of warriors going to Spain for the Reconquista, to the East to stomp Pagans, and to the Middle East for the Crusades. The Byzantines were desperately trying to reverse centuries of decline, especially after they lost large chunks of Anatolia (modern Turkey) to the Arabs.  Unfortunately, the differences in religion meant that after the Second Crusade (when the Byzantines had less apt rulers), the Europeans didn't care if they screwed their allies (a la the Sack of Constantinople in 1204) or left them to the wolves.\n\n+ why the Crusades were a turning point in history (consider the effects)\n\nFirst, the Crusades greatly broadened the horizons of the Europeans, giving them a new taste for foreign trade and travel. Second, the Crusades reversed the Arabs for quite a while - without the Crusades, Constantinople falls in the 1200's or 1300's to the Muslims instead of 1450. Third, the Crusades strengthened the Christian Church, setting up the events that would lead to Protestantism.\n\n+ how the effects of the Crusades can still be seen in our world today\n\nMany Muslims consider the Crusades proof that Christians are just interested in slaughtering them - they remember that the Crusaders were often merciless with the Muslims they fought (conveniently forgetting that the Muslims weren't all much better).\n\n+ the fate of the Western Roman Empire\n\nThe Western Roman Empire fell in the mid 5th century after Rome was sacked yet again by the Visigoths. The traditional date is September 4, 476 when Romulus Augustus, the Emperor of the Western Roman Empire was deposed by Odoacer, a Germanic chieftain.\n\n+ the fate of the Eastern Roman Empire\n\nThe Eastern Roman Empire fell on May 28th, 1453 when Sultan Mehmed II captured Constantinople. Emperor Constantine XI was killed in the final battle.\n\nHopefully, the terms and names given here are enough to spur extra research.
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YES!  All the time.  Rome was made up of many states that didn't always get along.  Sparta rose up for the love of a woman... ect. ect.\n\nI don't know what you mean by 'how did they live' but there were deffinitely political struggles and mini-wars.