Barbarians - The Huns

Formato: DVD
Ano: 2003
Versão castelhana: Bárbaros - Hunos

Synopsis: In the fifth century, a people known as the Huns marched from central Asia to Europe and brought the faltering Roman empire to the brink of collapse. Barbarians: The Huns chronicles their infamously violent military strategies and their sophisticated international diplomacy.

CURRICULUM LINKS
This documentary can be used in history classes.

NOTE TO EDUCATORS
This program is appropriate for middle school and high school students. It contains some descriptions of graphic violence.

OBJECTIVES
After viewing this program, students should be able to discuss the strategies and goals, both military and diplomatic, of the Huns and their impact on the Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church.

STANDARDS
This program fulfills the following National Standards for History for grades 5-12: chronological thinking, historical comprehension, historical analysis and interpretations.

PRE-VIEWING QUESTIONS
1. Read through all the questions below in the following two sections. Bear these questions in mind as you watch the video.
2. By the time the Huns were coming into conflict with the Roman empire, they were based in the area that is today the country of Hungary. Locate Hungary on a map. How far is it from Constantinople (Istanbul)? From Rome?

Aetius
Atilla
Bleda
Chalons
Gaul
Honoria
Honorius
Marcian
Pope Leo I
Ravenna
Ruglia
The Balkans
Theodosius
Valentinian

Barbarians - The Goths

Formato: DVD
Ano: 2003
Versão castelhana: Bárbaros - Godos

Synopsis: In A.D. 410 the Goths sacked the Eternal City, Rome, and delivered one of the most devastating attacks in history on the Roman Empire. What motivated this onslaught? How was such an attack against the once invincible empire possible? Who were the Goths, and what were the consequences of their victory, for themselves and for the empire? Barbarians: The Goths shows how the Goths were a people stuck between a rock and a hard place, who lashed out against the Romans only under duress and when all other options had failed them.

CURRICULUM LINKS
Barbarians: The Goths can be used in history classes.

NOTE TO EDUCATORS
This program is appropriate for middle school and high school students. It contains some descriptions of graphic violence.

OBJECTIVES
After viewing this program, students should be able to discuss the emergence, development, and legacy of the Goths; the career and achievements of the Goth leader Alaric; the political state of the Roman empire in the fourth and fifth centuries.

STANDARDS
Barbarians: The Goths fulfills the following National Standards for History for grades 5-12: chronological thinking, historical comprehension, historical analysis and interpretations.

PRE-VIEWING ACTIVITY
1.Before watching the video, read through and prepare to answer all the questions below.
2.What was happening elsewhere in Europe in the fourth and fifth centuries?

Adrianople
Alaric
Emperor Arcadius
Emperor Honorius
Emperor Theodosius
Emperor Valens
Fritigern
Marcianople
Thrace

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