Collapse of Empire- Savannah Martin- Lyons

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  • 476

    Fall of the Emporer of Rome

    Fall of the Emporer of Rome
    Last western emperor, Romulus Augustulus, is deposed by the barbarian general Odoacer who then rules Italy.
  • 476

    Roman Collapse

    Roman Collapse
    Many theories of causality have been explored and most concern the disintegration of political, economic, military, and other social institutions, in tandem with barbarian invasions and usurpers from within the empire.The decline, seen in retrospect, occurred over a period of four centuries, culminating in the final dissolution of the Western Roman Empire on September 4, 476, when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed by Odoacer, a Germanic chieftain.
  • 540

    Gupta Dynasty

    Gupta Dynasty
    After the reign of Skanda Gupta any Gupta coin or inscription has been found in western Malwa and Saurashtra.The advantages from Gujarat trade gradually disappeared. After the middle of the fifth century the Gupta kings made desperate attempts to maintain their gold currency by reducing the content of pure gold in it.The loss of western India complete by the end of the fifth century, must have deprived the Gutpas of the rich revenues from trade and commerce and crippled them economically,
  • 540

    Gupta Dynasty

    Gupta Dynasty
    After the death of Kumaragupta there was probably a struggle for succession among the successors.Which weakened the Gupta Dynasty. The latter Guptas were busy in civil war over the accession to the throne, they couldn't pay attention to the administrative maintenance of the vast Empire. Thus the struggle for throne inside the family substantially weakened the central authority in the provinces and feudatories. Thus family grudges continued to be the primary reason for the downfall of the Guptas.

  • Han Dynasty

    Han Dynasty
    Yellow Turban Rebellion
    A peasant revolt that broke out in 184 AD in China. A main cause was the agrarian crisis, where famine forced many farmers and former military settlers in the north to go south to look for employment. Also high taxes imposed in order to fund the construction of fortifications along the Silk Road made it hard for the farmers and poor. ower of the landowners had become a longst Landowners, landless peasants, and unemployed former-soldiers formed armed bands and revolted.