How did rome fall?

Question

When is the fall of rome? Who defeated Rome? Who is the king of Rome after Julius Ceasar?

This is not my homework, im an engineering student, was watch gladiator, found rome interesting and would really know the truth of the fall of rome?

Answer 1

no one defeated rome. the roman empire's capital was transfered to Constantinople by Constantine the Great. Rome continued to exist but slowly it fell into decadence and it was later on conquered by Lombards, etc. Oh, and Julius Ceasar was not a king, but an emperor...

Answer 2

Once Octavian named Tiberius as his heir, it was clear to everyone that even the hope of a restored Republic was dead. Most likely, by the time Augustus died, no one was old enough to know a time before an Emperor ruled Rome.

The Roman Republic had been changed into a despotic regime, which, underneath a competent and strong Emperor, could achieve military supremacy, economic prosperity, and a genuine peace, but under a weak or incompetent one saw its glory tarnished by cruelty, military defeats, revolts, and civil war.

The Roman Empire was eventually divided between the Western Roman Empire which fell in 476 AD and the Eastern Roman Empire (also called the Byzantine Empire) which lasted until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

Answer 3

Rome fell because of slavery.

From its inception until the just before the fall of the republic, Rome, although it used slaves like all ancient civilizations, was built on the rock of the citizen soldier. During peace steadied his hoe and plow, during war he steadied his sword. He had the discipline to fight as a unit, a discipline which allowed him to beat a bigger and better equipped army and more importantly, it allowed him to bounce back after a loss. He was loyal and loved Rome.

After the fall of Carthage, slaves started to stream into Rome. The character of Roman society changed. Instead of citizen farmers who were loyal to Rome and were willing to defend it, the land came to be dominated by a few aristocrats with slaves working huge estates. It took a bit for it to occur, but soon the land was generally denuded of the yeoman famrer.

This lead to two things. Firstly, there was a never a need for Rome to advance technology to make its economy more efficient, both because slaves could do all of the work anyways and also a legal framework could not evolve to encourage inventions. It further made those who did have the fortune to have educations to distain "work".

Secondly, the army started having a harder and harder time recruiting Romans. Just before the Republic ended, the professional standing army replaced the yeoman army.

For a while this didn't seem to hurt. The territories Rome controlled were so rich that it could afford to pay these soldiers what they wanted and such soldiers ahd the ability to campaign far and away, much farther than a solder who had to come back home to plow his fields. But this meant the soldier was loyal to his pocket rather than Rome.

Eventually, the soldiers started picking their own emperors and the civil wars broke out whenever a weak emperor attained the purple. Without the backbone of the citizen soldier, there was no specifical loyalty to Rome itself.

As the 5th century rolled on, Rome collapsed on itself, not completely unlike the way the Soviet Union would do 1500 years later. There was no real citzen body left to support it, only rich aristocrats, soldiers, slaves and poor romans. None, aside from the formermost truely cared about Rome. With this lack of body combined with strong barbarian attacks, led to its collapse.

The Eastern Roman Empire held out longer at first because of luck and its wealth, but it experienced its 9th and 10th century resurgance due to the creation of the cataphracts, which were land owning soldiers.

Answer 4

The first time was by the Gauls in 387 or 390 BC in the Battle of the Allia. It was because a Roman ambassador (a peaceful role) killed and robbed the corpse of a leader of theirs during a scuffle that had almost nothing to do with the Romans whatsoever, and the Romans wouldn't hand the ambassador over for retribution, but made him a sort of general instead. They didn't actually defeat the Romans.

Answer 5

Well we was a fishin on the bank for catfish when Rome decided he had to go to the bathroom, he was really drunk and when he tried to lean on a tree he missed it by a mile and fell into the river. Simple potty accident. Unless you mean Rome, Italy and the Roman Empire then that's another story....

Answer 6

I only have a vaugue sense of it from TV shows. Rome tries to conquer vast territories, Hadrian tried to hold onto them by making large walls. Also this was a WPA type of thing. Then various weak horny emporors and schemers took power each for awhile. They partied too much and lost most of the empire that way I think.

Answer 7

it took rome 500 some odd years 3 capitals, more cesars than you can shake a stick at to fall. look it up on wikiapedia at least.

Answer 8

Corrupt behavior became acceptable and it destroyed the entire civilization (according to the real history and the Revised Liberal Version). If we're not careful, it could happen here.

Answer 9

When Rome was ruled by none Romans:
"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." -- Ariel Sharon to Shimon Peres, October 3rd, 2001, as reported on Kol Yisrael

Answer 10

No, you're not. No way you are an engineering student and write so poorly. If you are you must be at the bottom of your class.