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Here are the teacher pack items for The Fall of the Roman Empire:
Overview In this experience, students investigate various sources to learn about the fall of Rome. Then, they turn eastward to learn about the Byzantine Empire (formerly the Eastern Roman Empire), which survived for 1,000 years after the western empire. Next, they create an infographic timeline of the fall of Rome. Finally, they read a primary source—the eyewitness testimony of St. Jerome—describing the violence and grief of Rome’s fall. This experience contains a lot of content. You may choose to teach it over two sessions in order to spend adequate time on the various elements of the fall of the Roman Empire. Objective
The Western Roman Empire lasted about five hundred years and then fell. The Eastern Roman Empire lasted another thousand years before it fell. In this experience, you’ll learn the gruesome details!
Objective
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Why would the fall of a faraway space empire be interesting to people on Earth?
Conduct a very brief discussion of students’ posts. Then tell students that the story of the space empire’s fall is very similar to the fall of the Roman Empire. Explain that people today want to learn why the empire fell so that contemporary civilizations can avoid the same fate.
