- The Huns began destroying the Germanic peoples. so the germanics fled to rome
- "barbarians" - a term Romans used to describe non- romans
- in 410, hordes of germans overran rome and plundered it for 3 days.
- Huns united in 444 AD under Atilla
- he couldnt capture rome
- 452 AD Atill and the Huns tried to take the Roman West, but famine and disease stopped them
- the last Roman emperor- 14year old boy Romulus augustulus
- 476 he was ousted by the german forces
- roman power in the west half now disappeared
- eastern half= Byzantine Empire
- Byzantine Empire flourished until 1453 when they were conquered by Ottoman Turks
Legacy of Greco-Roman Civilization:
- romans were proud of their unique ability to rule
- greeks lead the fields of art, architecture, literature, and philosophy
- Horace= roman poet
- greco Roman culture / classical civilization= mixing of elements of Greek, hellinistic, and roman culture
- romans made realistic portraits in stone
- reign of augustus was a period of artistic achievement
- bas-relief, images projected from a flat background
- used bas-relief to tell stories and to represent crowds of people, soldiers in battle, and landscapes
- mosaics were pictures or designs made by setting small pieces of stone, glass, or tile onto a surface
- frescoes= bright, large murals painted directly on walls
- Pompeii- known for these paintings
- Mount Vesivius erupted and covered Pompeii in ash in AD 79
- stoicism, philosophy of greek teacher Zeno
- Roman poet used the oddessy and spent 10 years writing Aeneid
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