Fall of Rome - Rise of Christianity

I. Decline and Fall - A.D. 378

Huns
Goths

• Ostrogoths
• Visigoths

Alemanni
Danube River

foederates

378 - Adrianople
Valens

410 - Visigoths
455 - Vandals

Roman Empire
province < pro-vincia
consul > pro-consul

Diocletian (A.D. 284 - 305)
Tetrarchy

• Augusti (2, east and west)
• Caesari (2, east and west, juniors)

Constantinople (Byzantium)

II. Celtic Christianity
Pope Gregory the Great (A.D. 600)

• St. Augustine of Hippo (d. 430)
• St. Augustine of Canterbury (ca. 600)

St. Patrick
Joseph of Arimethia

• episcopal (bishops)
• monastic (from France, from Syria)
• Roman Catholic

1. Roman civilization survives collapse of Roman administration
2. Christianity is Roman
3. Christianity allied with power (from 4th century)