Chapter 7 Review: Important Events
| 293 | Diocletian creates the tetrarchy |
| 301 | Diocletian issues Edict on Maximum Prices and Wages |
| 303 | Diocletian launches Great Persecution of Christians |
| 312 | Constantine sees vision, wins battle of the Milvian Bridge in Rome, and converts to Christianity |
| 313 | Religious freedom is proclaimed in the Edict of Milan |
| 323 | Pachomius in Upper Egypt establishes the first monasteries |
| 324 | Constantine wins civil war and re-founds Byzantium as Constantinople, the “New Rome” |
| 325 | Council of Nicaea defends Christian orthodoxy against Arianism |
| 361–363 | Julian the Apostate tries to reinstate polytheism as official state religion |
| 378 | Barbarian massacre of Roman army in battle of Adrianople |
| 391 | Theodosius I makes Christianity the official state religion |
| 395 | Theodosius I divides empire into western and eastern halves |
| 410 | Visigoths sack Rome |
| 426 | Augustine publishes The City of God |
| 451 | Council of Chalcedon attempts to forge agreement on Christian orthodoxy |
| 475 | Visigoths publish law code |
| 476 | German commander Odoacer deposes the final western emperor, the boy Romulus Augustulus (“the fall of Rome”) |
| 493–526 | Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy |
| 507 | Clovis establishes Frankish kingdom in Gaul |
| 527–565 | Reign of eastern Roman emperor Justinian |
| 529–534 | Justinian publishes law code and handbooks |
| 540 | Benedict devises his rule for monasteries |
Consider three events: Augustine publishes The City of God (426), Council of Chalcedon attempts to forge agreement on Christian orthodoxy (451), and Justinian publishes law code and handbooks (529–534). What connections can be drawn between these events in terms of the attitudes that informed them, their goals, and their effects on society?