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200
Stretching the Empire
In the AD 100s the Roman Empire stretched from Britain south to Egypt, and from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the Syria Desert. -
200
Division of Roman Empire
The empire did not stay that large for long. By the end of the AD 200s, emperor had given up some of the land the Roman army had conquered. This empire became to large to defend. -
200
Diocletian fought to power
In the late AD 200s, Diocletian became emperor. He convinced that the mepire was too big for one person to rule, Diocletian ruled the easternhalf and made co-emperor to rule the west naemd Constantine. Not long after Diocletian left power, the emperor Constantie reunited the empire for a short time. He moved the capital city to the east which is now Turkey. It was called Constantinople. -
300
Foreign tribes settled
The foreign tribes had settled along the Roman Empire's northern border in the AD 200s. A century later, these bands of fighter began invading deep into the heart of the Empire. In the early 300s, foreign tribes invaded Rome. -
410
Visigoths
In AD 410s, the Visigoths marched into Rome and fired and destroyed the city. No one had attacked their city nearly 800 years. -
450
Military leaders
Huns, under a fearsome elader named Attila, raided Roman territory in the east. Rome needed strong leaders to survive these attacks, but some emperors were weak. Military leaders took power away from the emperors and by the 450s, ruled Rome -
476
King of Italy
In AD 476, one of the foreign generals overthrew the last emperor in Rome and named himself king of Italy. -
527
Retaking Rome
The eastern emperors dreamed of retaking Rome. For Justinian an emperor who ruled from AD 527 to AD 565. His armies conquered Italy and much land around the Mediterranean. -
532
Justinian fight his enemies.
In 532, Justinian made many armies. In 532 an uprising threatened to drive him from constantinople. However his wife, Theodora who is powerful and smart, told him to stay and fight the enemies. In 1453 the Roman Empire ended -
Huns and the Goths
The source of these raids was a group of people called the Huns, fierce warriors from Central Asia. In the Huns' victimes were several groups of people called the Goths. Rome leaders feared that the Goths would destroy Rome land. The Goths were forced to move further to the east. The western armies were defeated by the Goths and the Romans paid the Goths not to attack. In AD 408 the Romans stopped making payments.
