Does anyone know about Rome?

Question

Does anyone know the decline of Rome, social,poltical and econmicly?

Answer 1

Why did Rome fall ?
Well, the old-fashioned, traditional explanation for the fall of Rome points out the mass migration as the biggest reason for the collapse of Rome.

In ancient European history it happened two or three times that huge migrations took place, hundreds of thousands, even millions of people set out to find new homelands.
The fact that such a mass migration took place whilst the Romans were still in power, must be seen as at least a major contributor to their fall. For as we see in modern days too, armies can fight other armies, but they cannot fight entire peoples. The Romans were overwhelmed in a human deluge.


But today one tends not to rely so much on the idea of mass migration and rather understands Rome as having suffered from an entire list of problems.

Rome had always had its fair share of bad emperors. Caligula, Nero, Commodus are such examples. But there always followed good emperors to correct their errors. At Rome's end however, there was really no good rulers. For example great generals like Stilicho were killed because the emperor feared losing his throne to them. If you kill your best generals, your army will never be as good as it could be.
Also important to the weakening of the Romans was that they began to get more and more civilized. Civilized people were not as good warriors on the battlefields as barbarians. For a long time the Romans had their own barbarians. Gauls, Illyrians, Belgians, Helvetians, Germans, etc.; they all joined the Roman legions. But soon they too were living like Romans. They enjoyed the fruits of Roman civilization and hence became less barbarous, - and less able to fight the barbarian Goths, Vandals, Sueves, etc..
Another important reason is perhaps that of Roman unity. The early Romans who built the empire stood united. By the end of course Rome had two capitals, Rome and Constantinople, each with its own emperor. But to the earlier Romans, Rome had been something special, something they served. But the later Romans only sought power for themselves. Almost every military commanders secretely had his eye on the throne and was ready to overthrow the emperor and take power himself. The armies spent a lot of time fighting each other for power in Rome, rather than fighting the enemy.
To this cataolgue of troubles one needs also to add economic problems. Rome was spending more than it could afford. The free food rations for the poor of Rome and Constantinople were costing a fortune. The Purchasing of exotic spices and silk from the orient ment that over time Rome was spending its gold on overseas luxuries. Gold which didn't return. Soon Rome didn't have enough gold to produce coins with.
And then there were the plagues. Deadly diseases brought in from the east swept across Europe, killing vast numbers among the population of the empire.
Even if the mass migration of the wild, Germanic people of the eastern plains is no longer seen as the all-important reason for Rome's demise, it naturally still is seen as one of the capital problems which caused the empire to fall.
As a last reason I'd also see the disastrous decision of emperor Valens (who was emperor of Constantinople) to allow the Visigoths to settle in Moesia.
The Roman empire's borders to the north had been the river Rhine and the river Danube. They are wide streams and therefore hard to cross. This means, the border was easy to defend. But when the Huns from the east attacked the Visigoths on the other side of the Danube, emperor Valens let them settle on the Roman side of the river. True, the Visigoths then were friends of the Romans. But that soon changed. It didn't take long and bad living conditions, poverty and starvation led the Visigoths to revolt. In the following war, the Romans no longer had a protective river from behind which to defend themelves. The enemy was settled within their own empire. - And it should be the Visigoths who eventually sacked the city of Rome itself.

So, the main points for the fall were
1. bad emperors
2. increasing civilization of the people of the empire (which means weaker soldiers)
3. Roman disunity, endless infighting
4. economic decline
5. plagues
6. mass migration
7. and the settlement of the Visigoths in Moesia

Answer 2

The Significance of Rome

Rome’s contribution to western civilization is their extension of citizenship. The Greeks didn’t do this because they believed that it would weaken the polis. But the Roman gave citizenship to people other then the Romans and not only citizenship they all so gave them political power. They couldn’t hold offices but they could have a say in the government. And this made the Rome more powerful. It also allowed them to gain allies.

Roman political life.

Senate – were people who could give their own advice on matters. They could not pass any laws. And the senate was full with the elders.

Consul – The highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Empire. Which only Patricians were able to be elected.

Tribune – was the office in which they protected the rights of the plebeians from the arbitrary conduct of patrician’s magistrates.

Censor – They were the supervision of public morals, they had the power to determine who lawfully could sit in the senate, they were also in charge of registration of citizens and they leasing of public contracts.

Praetor – People who replaced the consul when the consul were away from Rome.

Aedile – Supervised the street, market and presided over public festivals.

Quastor – they were appointed by the consul to assist them in their duties. They took charge of the public treasury and prosecuted criminals in the popular courts.

The three problems that happen in the late Republic: 1) new lands in need of armies and law, 2) Enforcement of law, 3) the economy begin destroy for the farms that once flourished the land with good were now out and fight for long periods of time and the families not able to manage the land.

Answer 3

I like the book of Daniel in the Bible. Talk about Rome defined in prophecy but we'll go textbook. It's so simple that it is nice. Rome collapsed because the middle man was drained. Let's look at our nation. Let's assume that the rich stay rich with loop holes and protection from the Military/Industrial Complex. Let's say the middle gets taxed to death. Let's say the poor get off scot free. Well, once the middle man is taxed to death and collapses, the poor go down as they have no assistance. The rich are left holding the bag and they aren't enough to run this country. it would fall flat on it's face rather quickly. In essence, this happened to Rome.

Answer 4

Rome declined, because the Romans got greedy. That's it in a nut shell.

Answer 5

Reaserch your Biblical History on "The Fall Of The Roman Empire"

Answer 6

Rome is here today, it encompasses everything in this world. This is like a New Roman Empire.

Answer 7

I don't want to give you an incorrect answer as I am not 100%, but try Wikipedia.com. I use that site for all of my college courses (Bio, History, English etc) I haven't used a text book since I started college - check it out.

Answer 8

Rome is in Italy and Italy is in Europe

Answer 9

you can search about Rome in internet. Here are the cites for that. www.google.com www.askjeeves.com
they will give a buch of infomation about Rome.

Answer 10

I've read about it.