HIST 1001 : Test 4
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Perpetua from well-to-do family and is arrested and nurses her son while in prison and keeps a diary of her time there. When put on trial she declines to make a sacrifice. Valens allows them to enter in exchange for border protection 374: expecting warriors, but get whole families and just want a little bit of land to farm their own food and they set them up in camps. Nica riot and attack justinian and burn down parts of the city: justinian plans to flee, but theodora tells him she has a plan. Christ, 619 egypt the breadbasket of the kingdom falls to persia: romans look to the general heraclius 610-641 and he eventually attacks the. Persian capital and is able to get the cross back and have the old borders return between them: after this war both of the powers become weakened and both would eventually be captured by the arabs (nov 17)
