Fall of Ancient Rome

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Across
  1. 3. -Rome was one of the most powerful ______s of all time
  2. 4. -/Romans needed lots of protection around borders, so they had very high _____ on the poor
  3. 6. -Too large of a gap between the rich and poor created large amounts of __________
  4. 8. -Germanic tribe made up of the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths who threatened invasion to the empire
  5. 9. -Roman general and dictator, murdered by a group of senators and his former friend who hoped to restore the normal running of the republic.
  6. 11. -Wall that split Rome from Brittania, kept soldiers and barbarians from entering Roman lands
  7. 12. -The emperor who converted Rome to Christianity
  8. 13. -The last emperor of Rome, ruled at 14 years old
  9. 15. -People or groups that enter countries or regions with the idea to destroy, steal from, or take control over them
  10. 16. -Roman emperor and adoptive son of Nerva and who brought Rome to its greatest size in year 117 CE
Down
  1. 1. Capital city until later renamed Constantinople, was briefly the imperial residence of the classical Roman Empire
  2. 2. -The side of the Roman Empire that collapsed first (476 CE)
  3. 5. -The emperor who tried to stop decentralization
  4. 7. -The national religion of Rome as of 380AD
  5. 10. -The imperial capital of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire, the Latin Empire and the Ottoman Empire
  6. 14. -The term for a war with two sides in the same civilization fighting against each other