The final exam for this course is scheduled for Tuesday, 4/26 at 10:00 in our normal classroom.  You will have an hour and a half to complete the exam.  Please bring a blue book with you!

-In addition to reviewing the dates & events listed below, think about the significance of these events for people in the western Roman Empire and the eastern Roman Empire.  In most cases the importance of the event will differ for different regions of the late Roman world.

-Be sure to review the list of terms, the map at the back of Peter Brown's book, and you may even want to look back at some of the images on the website.

 408-450   Reign of Theodosius II

 410   Alaric & Visigoths sack Rome
          Roman armies pull out of Britain

 430  death of Augustine of Hippo

 451   Council of Chalcedon [=Fourth Ecumenical Council]

 434-53   Attila & the Huns threaten East & West

 455   Vandals sack Rome

 476   Fall of Western Roman Empire to Odoacer

 493   Theodoric the Ostrogoth becomes ruler of Italy

 c.500   Clovis, King of Franks, converts to Catholic Christianity

 527-565   Reign of Justinian
    -Nika Revolt
    -Codification of laws
    -Campaigns of Reconquest

 541-  Plague

6th-early 7th century - "transmitters" in the west:

     -Boethius, Cassiodurs, Ididore of Seville (d. 636)

604 - death of Pope Gregory the Great

610-641   Reign of Heraclius

 613-627 Great War with Persia
    613 - Antioch falls to Persia
    614 - Persians besiege & capture Jerusalem: True Cross taken to Ctesiphon
    627 - Heraclius defeats Persian army
    628 - Khusro II assassinated

 622  Muhammad’s Hijra (Hegira)

 632  Death of  Muhammad

 636  Battle of Yarmuk

 661-750  Umayyad Caliphate in Damascus