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Commodus   after the death of Marcus Aurelius in A.D. 180, his son, ---- became emperor  
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cruel   Commodus was ---- and wasted money  
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bodyguard   in A.D. 192, Commodus ---- killed him  
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confusion   nearly a century of fighting and ---- followed the death of Commodus  
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Severans   after Commodus, emperors called the ---- ruled Rome  
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poverty   the Serverans stayed in power by paying the army well, but they ignored the growing problems of crime and ----  
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borders   they spent most of their time putting down revolts and protecting Rome's ----  
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weak   when the last Severan ruler died in AD 235, Rome's leadership grew ---- and the government grew corrupt  
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duty   fewer Romans honored the old ideals of ---- courage and honesty  
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worsened   with a weak government , the economy worsened  
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goods   people bought fewer ----  
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shopkeepers   Artisans produced less, and ---- lost money  
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workers   many businesses closed and the number of ---- dropped sharply  
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plague   a ---- or disease that spreads widely, broke out and killed many people  
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ten   the plague killed one out of every ---- people in the empire  
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inflation   Rome also began to suffer from ---- or rapidly increasing prices  
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value   inflation occurs when money loses its ----  
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taxes   the weak economy meant fewer ---- were paid and the Roman government could not afford to pay soldiers to defend its territories  
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gold   one way for the government to get money was to put less ---- in its coins  
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losing   people soon learned that the coins did not have much gold in them and the cons began ---- value  
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bartering   many people stopped using money altogether and began ---- or exchanging goods without using money  
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invaders   because the Roman government could not afford to pay soldiers to protect its borders, ---- began pushing into the empire's territory  
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Germanic   the Romans began using ---- warriors in their army  
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loyal   these Germianic soldiers however were not --- to Rome  
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Diocletian   in A.D. 284 a general named ---- became emperor  
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reforms   Diocletian tried to establish ---- that would improve Rome's political situation  
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four   Diocletian believed the empire was too large for one person to rule so he divided it into ---- parts  
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officials   he named ---- to rule these areas but kept authority over all  
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economy   Diocletian also worked to improve Rome's ----  
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slow   to ---- inflation, Diocletian issued rules that set the prices of goods and the wages to be paid to workers  
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died   to make sure more goods were produced, Diocletian ordered workers to remain at the same jobs until they ----  
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failed   Diocletian;s reforms failed  
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ignored   the people ---- his new rules, and Diocletian did not have enough power to make them obey  
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retired   in A.D. 305 Diocletian ---- from office  
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Constantine   after a period of conflict , another general named ---- became emperor in A.D. 312  
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aid   to ---- the economy , Constantine issued several orders  
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trade   the sons of workers had to follow their father's ----  
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land   the sons of farmers had to work the ---- their fathers worked  
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west   Constantine's changes, however, did not stop the empire's decline in the ----  
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east   when the empire started to decline in the west, Constantine moved the capital from dying rome to a new city in the ----  
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capital   Constantine moved the ---- to the Greek city of Byzantium  
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Constantinople   Byzantium later became known as ----  
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Istanbul   today, Constantinople is called ----  
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Christian   Constantine was the first Roman Emperor to become a ----  
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Christianity   he first came to believe in ---- when he was a young military leader  
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cross   Constantine believed he had seen a flaming ---- cross in the sky that said "by this sign thou shall conquer"  
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battle   the next day his army was victorious in an important ----  
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call   he believed that the cross was a ---- to the Christian God  
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How did inflation occur?   the government put less gold in its coins to create more money to pay soldiers. people learned that the coins did not have value the coins as highly  
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