book notes section 4 and 5

Western Empire Crumbles

• 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

Section 5
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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