--- title: Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Emperor Constantine became the first Christian emperor, allowed Christians to worship freely in 313 and founded a new cap --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / Rome: the fall of the West and what Ro… # Rome: the fall of the West and what Rome left us Lesson 16 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 21 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/0/) — Emperor Constantine became the first Christian emperor, allowed Christians to worship freely in 313 and founded a new capital, Constantinople, today's Istanbul. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/1/) — The empire grew too big for one ruler and was split into a western half ruled from Rome and an eastern half ruled from Constantinople. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/2/) — The West had many troubles at once: civil wars, money problems, disease and many peoples pushing across its borders. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/3/) — Think of a leaky old house: no single drip brings it down, but many leaks together, year after year, do. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/4/) — In 410 the Visigoths looted Rome, and in 476 the last western emperor, a boy, was removed, but for most people life changed slowly. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/5/) — The East, which we call the Byzantine Empire, lasted another thousand years. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/6/) — If you play Europa Universalis you meet it at the start as a small state, long after its great days. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/7/) — Meanwhile, monks in the West copied old books by hand and kept learning alive. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/8/) — Constantine became the first Christian emperor, in 313 allowed Christians to worship freely, and founded a new capital, Constantinople, today's Istanbul. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/9/) — By about 380 Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire, and it later spread across Europe. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/10/) — The empire was split into a western half ruled from Rome and an eastern half ruled from Constantinople. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/11/) — The western empire faced civil wars, money troubles, disease and many peoples pushing across its borders, such as Goths, Vandals and Huns; many problems together weakened it, not one single cause. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/12/) — In 410 the Visigoths captured and looted Rome itself, the first time an enemy had taken the city in about 800 years. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/13/) — Attila led the Huns, horse-riding warriors from the east, and attacked both halves of the empire, and the Huns pushed other peoples into Roman lands. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/14/) — In 476 a Germanic general removed the last western emperor, a boy named Romulus Augustulus, and this date is often given as the fall of Rome. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/15/) — Rome did not fall in a day: for most people life changed slowly, and the West broke into kingdoms that later became countries like France, Spain and England. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/16/) — The eastern empire, which we call the Byzantine Empire, lasted another thousand years until 1453. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/17/) — The Byzantines kept Roman law and Greek books alive and spread Orthodox Christianity to places like Kyiv and Moscow. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/18/) — The Byzantine emperor Justinian built the great church of Hagia Sophia with its huge dome and collected Roman law into one book. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/19/) — Rome left us roads, laws, the alphabet, the names of months, languages, buildings and the Christian church. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/20/) — After the fall of the West, monks in monasteries copied old books by hand, and without them many Roman and Greek books would be lost. - ← previous: [Rome: daily life, gladiators, Latin and Christianity](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/15-rome-daily-life-gladiators-latin-and-christianity/) - next →: [Native peoples of North America](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/17-native-peoples-of-north-america/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)