Today in Western Civ. my partner and I did our Ancient Greece presentation. It went ok, but it could've gone better. We had some technical difficulties with playing the videos and lost our momentum going into that part. We did the Olympics. It was fun to learn about it and film the stuff, but I'm glad it's over. Another group went and probably got somewhere between a 95 and a 100.
Worksheet: Part A: 1.Inflation- A drastic drop in the value of money and a raise in price. 2. The Roman army was in disarray. 3. Diocletian tried to control the inflation rates and he doubled the size of the army. 4. Power moved east and away from Rome. The western Roman Empire survived, but the Eastern Roman Empire fell. 5. Constantinople/Byzantium 6. The first king of the Visigoths. Known for his sack of Rome in 410 A.D. which was an important event in the decline of the Western Roman Empire. 7. A chieftain of the Huns who led 100,00 soldiers into Rome and destroyed all of the Western Roman Empire. Attila and his soldiers destroyed 70 Roman cities and went on to destroy Constantinople but couldn't scale its walls to get in the city. Part B: The Roman army was in disarray. The hired mercenaries weren't loyal because of the little amount of money they were getting payed for fighting. This would make it hard for Rome to fend off its attackers which would lead t...
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