Page 15 - All About History - Issue 59-17

a pErmanEnt split payinG tHE Huns tHE wEst falls

Upon the death Amount of gold the The overthrow of
of Emperor Byzantines paid the Huns Romulus Augustus
Theodosius I, his annually to keep them at bay 159kG by the barbarian
two sons, Arcadius Odoacer marked
and Honorius, The tribute had the end of Western
inherited the doubled by 433 as Roman Empire.
Eastern and the 318kg Attila rose to power However, Odoacer
Western halves of The amount trebled bent the knee to
the Roman Empire in 443 after the Constantinople
respectively. The empire was heavily and Eastern Rome
empire would never defeated by the Huns952kG endured for another
be reunited. 1,000 years.
395 CE 424-43 CE 476 CE

While
Justinian
wanted to flee
it’s all GrEEk to mE! tHE Justinian plaGuE tHE refused to leave and
the capital, his wife
Emperor nika convinced him
Heraclius 25-50 million to stay
introduced riots
Greek as
the official Number of estimated deaths across the empire Justinian I’s
language of Approximate number harsh treatment
the empire’s 10,000 of deaths daily in of hooligans at
administration. Constantinople a chariot race,
By the next as well as anger
generation, at a recent tax
knowledge Number of major hike, sparked
of Latin was outbreaks of five days of
rare, even bubonic plague with this being the rioting that
among the first, followed by the Black Death killed a tenth of
educated. and the Third Pandemic Constantinople.

620 541-42 532

rEstorEd to intErnal population of End of an EmpirE
powEr strifE ConstantinoplE The army of Sultan Mehmed II killed

Emperor Michael VIII A series of civil wars Estimated number of Emperor Constantine XI as the Ottoman
Turks successfully captured the capital.
successfully recaptured among dynastic rivals 400,000 pre-plague inhabitants The event marked the end of the
Constantinople and caused during the reign of during the 6th century Byzantine Empire.
the Latin Emperor, Baldwin Emperor John V severely Number of people who lived in
II, to flee the city. Michael weakened the capital after its recapture
restored the capital, the empire 70,000 during the 13th century
which had and left it
fallen into vulnerable
disrepair, to attacks The
back to from population
its former enemies of the 15th
grandeur. abroad. century of the size it
was just was in the 6th

1261 1321-79 1400 1453

15