History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . saved the Empire ? When ? Divide up into three greatperiods the first four centuries of Roman leadership of the Mediter-ranean world. To what had four centuries of Roman imperiaUsm led ? III. What kind of State was organized by Diocletian ? Where didDiocletian chiefly reside? What did he do with the West ? Tell of hisadministrative organization and taxation. What happened to successfulbusiness men ? How did Diocletian treat the various occupations ?What thus became of the citizen ? IV. How did the emperors now
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . saved the Empire ? When ? Divide up into three greatperiods the first four centuries of Roman leadership of the Mediter-ranean world. To what had four centuries of Roman imperiaUsm led ? III. What kind of State was organized by Diocletian ? Where didDiocletian chiefly reside? What did he do with the West ? Tell of hisadministrative organization and taxation. What happened to successfulbusiness men ? How did Diocletian treat the various occupations ?What thus became of the citizen ? IV. How did the emperors now regard Rome? What did Con-stantine do ? How did this affect the Empire ? Describe the develop-ment and organization of the Church. How did the Empire now treatthe Church ? V. Where did mankind first gain civilization ? Where did civilizationfirst arise in Europe ? What happened when the Greeks came in ?Where was civilization then preserved ? Who carried it to its highestlevel ? By whom was it almost destroyed for the second time ? Whatorganization saved it for the second time ?. BOOK V. THE MIDDLE AGES CHAPTER XX THE GERMAN INVASIONS AND THE BREAK-UP OF THEROMAN EMPIRE I. Founding of Kingdoms by Barbarian Chiefs 447. The Menace of the Barbarians. We must now describethe way in which the western portions of the Roman Empire wereinvaded by barbarous peoples from the North, who broke up theold Roman government and established in its stead kingdomsunder their own rulers. These Germans, or Barbarians as theRomans called them, belonged to the same great group of peoplesto which the Persians, Greeks, and Romans belonged—the Indo-European race (§§ 89-91). They were destined, as their relativeshad earlier done, to take possession of the lands of others andhelp build up a different civilization from what they found. The peoples of northern Europe had not advanced much incivilization since the Late Stone Age (§§ 9-11). They were a con-stant menace to the highly civilized countries
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