After you've read each chapter, you should be able to do the following:

1. Analyze the effects of imperial restructuring under Diocletian and Constantine;
2. Contrast Roman and Germanic political and social developments;
3. Assess the impact of the Germanic peoples on the western Roman Empire;
4. Describe the distinctive features of the late antique eastern Roman Empire;
5. Explain the causes and effects of the emergence of the Catholic Church in the Roman Empire;
6. Assess the experience of continuity and change by different social groups in Late Antiquity.