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Germanic tribes and Romans begin to interact.

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Germanic tribes and Romans begin to interact.

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A time around 100 CE. Before this the Germanic tribes were migrating south the the Rhine river. When Germanic tribes were beginning to interact with the Romans. This was before the battle of Teutoburg. Both sides wanted to develope.

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Germanic tribes ask for permission to settle in Roman territory.

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Germanic tribes ask for permission to settle in Roman territory.

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They are denied this. This happened before the battle of Teutoburg. This happened around 166 AD. They wanted to move into the territory because they were searching for food.

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What the Rhine river looks like today.

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This is the most important event on this timeline. Read component one for information.

It was when the Germanic tribes first struck back as a planned powerful group, warning Romans from that area. This does not include all Germanic people, just the people opposite the Romans over the Rhine river. The goal of the Germanic people in doing this was they would not have to pay the high taxes and would be free of Roman influence.

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What the battle of Teutoburg forest could have looked like.

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14 to 37 CE. Takes place after the battle of Teutoburg forest. And was an effect of it because the battle of Teutoburg was the official start of it. Armimius wins when Germanicus the Roman military leader against him was called back to Rome by Tiberius, the Roman emperor at the time.

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Where Germania and Rome each were.

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Rome splits into eastern and western halves, for the first time.

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Rome splits into eastern and western halves, for the first time.

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They split because the current emperor thought that Rome was to big to manage, one of the reasons was because of all of the invasions and such. The eastern and western sides split for the first time in 285 AD. Also there were fights within Rome and the east was allowing the west to be attacked from the outside by the Germanic and Salvic tribes.

They are later split different ways in different times to make Rome work more efficiently. This event happened after the battle of Teutoburg forest. This is a big event that is connected to other events on this timeline. The result of this was

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Christianity became legal in Rome in 313 AD. This event happened after the battle of Teutoburg forest.

Before Christians would be punished with death and sometimes people of higher classes would spectate as they would get eaten by lions. Also around this time Christianity had mostly been practiced by slaves, servants, the lower classes and ect.

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The Romans make it illegal for a Roman and someone from a Germanic tribe to get married.

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The Romans make it illegal for a Roman and someone from a Germanic tribe to get married.

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This angers the people of the Germanic tribes. This happened after the battle of the forest of Teutoburg. The Romans most likely did this because

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This battle took place in 378 AD. This battle took place after the battle of Teutoburg forest. This battle marked the beginning of serious invasion of the Germanic barbarian tribes into Roman territory. They were becoming serious threats.

The Romans lost. The Germanic tribes wanted escape from the Huns who were coming from Asia so they pushed further into Roman territory.

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Image of roman Catholicism on coin.

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Christianity becomes the official state religion of Rome.

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Christianity becomes the official state religion of Rome.

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It became legal in 380. Religion was very important to Rome, they centered around poly worshiping. This means that they would worship multiple gods as a part of their religion. They were similar to the ancient Greek gods. Some of our planets are names after them. Like Jupiter was the god of lightning (in ancient Greece he was called Zeus).

For many year Christians had to exercise their religion secretly or in private. Or they would be punished. They would be punished because the Romans believed that the gods had chosen their emperor for them and not following the gods was disrespect to their emperor. This change happened after the battle of Teutoburg forest.

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In 395 AD the two sides of the roman empire we spilt apart for the rest of Rome's history, before it fell to many factors. But i will mostly be focusing on how the Germanic tribes affected this outcome. This happened after the battle of Teutoburg forest. Rome has been split into different forms before.

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Division between the eastern and western parts of Rome.

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The official takeover/fall of western Rome was the same year that the two sides of the roman empire spilt apart permanently. This Europe changing event happened after the battle of Teutoburg forest.

The western side of the roman empire was ruled by Rome itself. The fall of this part of Rome did have many factors, one of them being the barbaric Germanic tribes.

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Rome is fully invaded by Germanic barbarian tribes.

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Rome is fully invaded by Germanic barbarian tribes.

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This event happened in 410 AD. The barbarian tribes overthrew many large cities, killing people and destroying buildings. It was the first time in 800 years Rome had been invaded like this.

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Eastern Rome is invaded by the Ottoman empire for a short time.

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Eastern Rome is invaded by the Ottoman empire for a short time.

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This took place after the battle of Teutoburg when the Ottoman empire invaded a Roman city and even took control of the citadel. After the city was captured around 1480 pretty quickly. After the city had been captured over 800 Roman people living in the city were beheaded.

This is important because it shows that both eastern and western parts were being attacked and that was one of the reasons for Rome's downfall. Also the Roman politicians around this time were very corrupt.

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This took place in 476 AD. After the battle in the forest of Teutoburg. This event is extremely important, because without the problems Rome was experiencing up to it and this event, it is possible that Rome could have become the global superpower at some point and could have ruled many more thousands of years. Therefore altering the entire course of European history.

What happened was that a Germanic barbarian who went by Odacer took control of Rome and forced the last emperor of Rome to give up his crown.

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The beginning of the dark ages in Europe.

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The beginning of the dark ages in Europe.

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This happened after the battle in the forest of Tuetoburg. Rome had been beyond influential to Europe. Rome had been know for it's power and military, that was gone now. The next 500 years were considered the dark ages of Europe.

After the fall of Rome the people living on the west side became part of the Germanic tribes in the lower classes. Eventually parts in the east tried to reconstruct, but later became part of the peoples in surrounding areas.

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This is what the Ottoman empire began to look like during 1683. This is relevant to when the Ottoman empire seized control of a Roman city is a previous event.

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Researchers discover artifacts from the battle in the forest of Teutoburg forest.

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Researchers discover artifacts from the battle in the forest of Teutoburg forest.

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They discover artifact like old weapons and bones. This takes place in the current modern day. The historians think the battle of Teutoburg forest took place in what is now Kalkrieser Berg, Germany.

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Pictures above are the artifacts found. One of the most famous is this Roman metal face mask.