| ATTILA | King of the Huns who devastated much of the Roman Empire |
| ATTILATHEHUN | 5th-century king who devastated much of the Roman empire (6,3,3) |
| RAVENNA | This city in northeastern Italy was the capital of the Roman Empire in the 5th century CE. Its Church of San Vitale is one of the finest examples of Byzantine architecture and decoration in western Eu |
| SARACEN | Member of one of the nomadic Arabic tribes of the Syrian desert that harassed the borders of the Roman Empire (7) |
| BYZANTINE | The - Empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East (9) |
| GALLIACOMATA | Part of the Roman Empire north of the Alps (full of long-haired foreigners?), vide eg Tac. Ann. 11.23 |
| ICENI | Boudica's tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire |
| ANNALS | One of the major histories of the Roman Empire written by Tacitus (6) |
| GIBBON | Historian who chronicled the decline and fall of the Roman Empire (6) |
| GOTH | Germanic invader of the Roman Empire from the east between the 3rd and 5th centuries |
| DARKAGES | Period between the end of the Roman empire and the Renaissance (4,4) |
| OCTAVIAN | The name of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire, before he became emperor (8) |
| GOTHS | Which Germanic people invaded parts of the Roman Empire from the 3rd to the 5th century? (5) |
| MIDDLEAGES | In European history, the period between the end of the Roman Empire and about 1500 AD (6,4) |
| INFALLIBLE | “Corruption, the most ____ symptom of constitutional liberty” (Edward Gibbon in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) |
| RHINE | Defeat at the Teutoburg Forest limited the north-east expansion of the Roman empire to this river (5) |
| EPIC | Anthony Mann's "The Fall of the Roman Empire," e.g. |
| TITUS | --- Andronicus, Shakespeare tragedy set towards the end of the Roman Empire (5) |
| ANTONINEWALL | Inane town all about the end of the Roman Empire (8,4) |
| RAETIA | Province of the Roman Empire containing parts of modern-day Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy |
