HIST 4008 Chapter : HIST 4007 9/23
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Vandals sack rome, 455- second sacking that almost breaks the city. Before this happened, the city began to rapidly decline and shrink due to aqueduct destruction, and new dependence on the tiber river. According to gothic sources, the visigoths wanted to destroy all the huns. They are kept alive to balance power. Romulus augustus (puppet emperor), 475-476: killed by odovacar (some say he was sent by the emperor of. He becomes king of ostrogoths, and chooses ravenna as capital. Military city, port city, center of otoric kingdom. )- it was a tub remade into a coffin: not roman-style tomb, but more syrian-style. All have christianity in common: christianity becomes a marker of being civilized. Empire in east continued to thrive, with its capital in constantinople. Protomartyrs: starts to have issues with the bishop, she selects a women to marry her younger brother,
