https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5 Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2017-09-20 16:50:49 UTC 2024-08-14 18:02:12 UTC hello@padlet.com 2023athena_winslow https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189429113 Due to the invasions, more money was being spent on the military than anything else. For how costly it was, they raised taxes causing everyone to lose a lot of money.  ]]> 2017-09-20 16:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189429113 2023athena_winslow https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189431113      A lot of the rich at the time used fancy cooking utensils and pipes for water. The only problem was these pipes were made of lead and lead to the slow death of much of the wealthy.]]> 2017-09-20 16:54:47 UTC https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189431113 2023athena_winslow https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189431216   People became more and more violent over the coarse of Rome's rule. More awful punishments such as crucifixion became more of something fun to watch rather than a death sentence. Some arenas became so caked in blood, they would just flood it or cover it with more sand.]]> 2017-09-20 16:54:58 UTC https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189431216 2023athena_winslow https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189431531   Around the time that Rome fell, invaders from foreign countries were invading left and right. It began with Germanic hunters and warriors and slowly grew to almost the rest of the world.]]> 2017-09-20 16:55:26 UTC https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189431531 2023athena_winslow https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189431658   All the nice housing in Rome was super expensive and only affordable to the rich. Most of the poor either lived in apartment houses that could barely pass as a house, or on the streets as beggars.]]> 2017-09-20 16:55:39 UTC https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189431658 2023athena_winslow https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189431842   Unemployment in Rome was at an all time low. Most jobs were either taken or not needed anymore. This caused Rome to go bankrupt.]]> 2017-09-20 16:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189431842 2023athena_winslow https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189432090      People who believed in Christ were thought to turn pacifist. This caused them to not want to fight as it "went against their beliefs." Also, a lot of money was used to build churches and monasteries instead of things that really mattered.]]> 2017-09-20 16:56:19 UTC https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189432090 2023athena_winslow https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189432216   The Romans relied a lot on human and animal labor to do things. This caused no new technology to be created. This also caused a lot of important goods to be hard to find.]]> 2017-09-20 16:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189432216 2023athena_winslow https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189432338      The rich of the time were using all the gold for their pleasure. So, coins were made with less gold, causing them to lose their worth. People raised the prices to make up for this, so people began to barter.]]> 2017-09-20 16:56:43 UTC https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/189432338 2023athena_winslow https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/190187278  The empire soon lost their ways of voting in an emperor, and the empire started to be sold to the highest bidder. Even when they did vote, people would pay others to vote for them. 25 out of the 37 new emperors were assassinated.]]> 2017-09-22 15:48:09 UTC https://padlet.com/2023athena_winslow/g2ze6onbz3u5/wish/190187278