HSTR 337A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Odoacer, Roman Law, Romulus Augustulus
8 Sep 2017
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A: majority of italy consisted out of papal states. A: italy was once the heart of the roman empire. Going from the roman empire into a fragmented state. Spanish and french were causing italy to become a state for trade and commerce. End of western empire 476: ruled from rome, turmoil within the empire; partition between east and west. End of the eastern empire 1453: byzantine empire was born afterwards. Pressure from the north caused the empire to spilt into east and west; eastern. Empire was more sufficient and more sustainable than the west. Western empire, after 476, was mainly ruled within italy for most of the centuries. 476; romulus augustus; apposed by the italian senate, no longer merited the. Empire the senate believed that the western empire was no longer needed and headed to the east. Constantinople/byzantium was the capital of the eastern empire: named after constantine the great, a dominate figure during the 4th century.
