What led to the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Collaboration in the West
1. Germanic peoples often were affected by Roman culture
2. married into Roman families
3. Roman art, style of government
B. Breakdown over Roman views of western barbarian inferiority
1. the limits of barbarian identification with Rome were of enormous importance
2. notion of Roman citizenship gradually dissolved
3. western peoples wanted their own identities and clung to their roots
a. versions of Christianity that Roman elites regarded as unorthodox
b. interest in preserving their own traditional literature
c. law codes of barbarian kingdoms prescribed different rules for Germans
C. Barbarian invaders transformed the western Roman Empire
1. independent kingdoms with hybrid cultures
2. archaeological evidence shows decline
a. towns shrank
b. inscriptions became fewer and less literate
c. the range of circulation of manufactures narrowed
d. the quality of the goods people produced diminished
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