AP World History Unit 12 Vocabulary Already Passed

Silk Roads *trade route that connected the Han and Roman Empire in classical times *exchange of goods, ideas, and disease *Asia and India traded silk and spices west to consumers Fall of Roman Empire *problems: internal opposition, power struggle, generals struggled for power and died violently; empire was simply too large. *Empire divided into two districts *Germans from the north attacked the western half *Hun invasions pressured other Germanic tribes to invade *476 CE- German general defeated last roman emperor Germanic Invasions *ended imperial Roman power in western Europe, and power shifts to Byzantium in the east *led to decentralized rule and to the establishment of the feudal system in western Europe Early Byzantine Empire *Emperor Constantine accepted Christianity in 313 CE *relocated capital of the Roman Empire to Constantinople *After the fall of the western half of the Roman empire, the eastern half became known as the Byzantine Empire