History activity, aimed at first year high school students, with questions developed about the Middle Ages, from the Roman crisis to feudalism.
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A terrible rumor reaches us in the West: Rome attacked… My voice strangles and sobs interrupt me as I say these words. This city that conquered the Universe was conquered. Who could have guessed that Rome would crumble […] and that the coasts of the East, Egypt and Africa would be filled with fugitives; that Bethlehem, the Saint, would receive every day, reduced to beggary, guests of either sex, formerly nobles full of goods?
Epistles. São Jerônimo apud Gustavo de Freitas. 900 History texts and documents. Lisbon: Platano, 1977
1) Why does the crisis of the Roman Empire have its roots in the border stabilization process initiated by Augustus with the Pax Romana?
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2) With the decay of the Roman economy, the commoners began to leave the cities looking for work in the great patrician properties, receiving protection and part of the harvest to survive. How was this system known?
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3) From the 5th century onwards, the penetration of barbarians ceased to be peaceful, passing to violent attacks and predatory in different regions of the Empire, both on the borders and in important centers, including Pomegranate. This process was marked by what?
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4) The organization system of the Germanic peoples was very different from that of the Romans. Because?
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5) In the transition process, the Germans adopted a series of existing Roman structures, such as the division of provinces and the collection of taxes. In what favored the fusion of Germanic and Roman elements for the composition of European society?
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6) How did cultural fusion help the transformations to proceed slowly?
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Per Camila Farias.
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