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Blog #44 May 3, 2019

1. Inflation is a drastic drop in the value of money coupled with a rise in prices. A mercenary is a foreign soldier who fought for money. Diocletian was a strong-willed army leader. Constantinople was the city of Constantine and with massive walls built around it. Attila was a powerful chieftain.

3.  Some of the main causes were inflation, decline of agriculture economy, growing population, loss of patriotism, economy fall, and the taxes were raised.

4. Diocletian fixed previous problems. He also doubled the size of the Roman army and split the empire in half and ruled the Eastern part.

5. The tribes were fleeing the Huns, who had moved into their land and destroyed everything. When they were trying to run from them, the Germanic people moved through the Roman provinces.

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