Collapse of Rome 2

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Across
  1. 4. Eastern Roman Empire that continued for nearly a millennium
  2. 5. Capital of the Western Empire at the time of its fall
  3. 6. Christian thinker who wrote The City of God
  4. 7. Term for barbarian troops granted land in exchange for service
  5. 9. Work by Augustine interpreting Rome’s fall in spiritual terms
  6. 11. Year the Western Roman Empire officially ended
  7. 14. Christian moralist who blamed Rome’s fall on sin and corruption
  8. 15. Legal system that became the foundation of many European laws
  9. 18. Faith that became Rome’s spiritual legacy and social glue
  10. 19. Spiritual leader in Rome who gained prominence after the fall
Down
  1. 1. Last emperor of the Western Roman Empire
  2. 2. Capital of the Eastern Roman Empire
  3. 3. General who deposed the final Western Roman Emperor
  4. 8. Eastern emperor who accepted the end of the Western Empire
  5. 9. Term used by multiple sources to describe Rome’s internal decay
  6. 10. Recurring internal conflicts weakening the Roman state
  7. 12. Historian who wrote that Rome’s name and laws survived despite its fall
  8. 13. Language that evolved into Italian, French, Spanish, and others
  9. 16. Hired soldiers from outside Rome, often disloyal
  10. 17. Medieval ruler crowned Emperor of the Romans in AD 800