How the fall of rome happen?

Answer 1

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 2

Rome's fall may be attributed to many causes. Edward Gibbon points out the following causes:
1. The attacks by the barbarians (the Goths, the Sarmatians and the Huns to name a few) and other foes (the Parthians for eg.)

2. Increased dependence on the provinces:
In the days of the republic Italy produced enough for itself. But as the centuries passed and greed and avarice waxed in the imperial city (Rome) they became increasingly dependent on the provinces - they needed grain from Africa, even soldiers were from the provinces - Illyria, Gaul and even those recruited from hostile nations such as the Goths, the Sarmatians and the Dacians.

3. Corruption and infighting
There existed too many undercurrents within the empire and too often did Romans turn against other Romans (more emperors than I care to count were killed by their bodyguards, their legions, their slaves and, in one case (Aurelian), his secretary.

The tale of the fall of Rome would be too difficult to chronicle here. I will content myself with saying that it didn't happen overnight but spanned centuries. As corruption and avarice increased the emperors began to become more decadent and irresponsible. The army too began to find that it could easily do what it liked - placing its own favourites on the throne (due to this in the the later ages of the Roman Empire, i.e especially after the death of Marcus Aurelius in 180 AD, every successful Roman emperor was a general).

I apologise if the above answer is inadequate (which I rather suspect it is). If you really want to know the details of the downfall of the Roman Empire I suggest that you read "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbon.

Answer 3

Rome fell because it stopped growing, became too big to manage, it closed itself of to the outside world, an outside world that depended on Rome. Rome was over run by people on their frontiers that wanted to become Roman, Roman's however were not looking for new citizens or land like in the past.

One part of Rome fell and another part continued until the Turks destroyed it and took the Capitol Constantinople and renamed it Istanbul, which it has been ever since. The Roman Empire technically lasted longer than a 1000 years.

Answer 4

The Roman Empire took more than a thousand years to fall. In the meantime, various systems rose and fell in turn. The city fell several times. The most commonly-used dates are 410, when a Visigothic force, led by Alaric, took the city, 476, when Odovacer launched a coup and deposed the local emperor (there were other emperors elsewhere), and 1453, when Mehmet II took Constantinople (there were other Byzantine cities). So, um, in civilization collapse, gradual inflation, deterioration of the roads, decentralization of production, more use of barter and less of currency...? In political collapse, a few hard years and then it depends what emerges. Literacy also declined, but that may have to do with the collapse of the papyrus trade.

Answer 5

It was gradual--as the empire grew, it was less and less able to control the "barbarians" around it. Also, by the time it fell, most of those people were no longer barbarian, anyway. They had adopted Roman ways, but they were upset because they were not given the rights that Roman citizens were. Basically, they wanted a piece of the action, too. One Roman wrote that he was amazed when one of the "barbarians" came to him and offered to buy his land--he didn't just try to take it. Also, Rome fell in parts. Western Rome fell first, but the eastern part of the empire continued for a long time afterward as the Byzantine Empire.

Answer 6

Once global domination was achieved the decendents of the Roman Empire became slackers. They were weak and brutal. The fall of the Roman Empire occured when the slaves started to go against them. When the slaves were almost victorious, this made the people realise tht the Roman Empire was nothing but a corrupted empire.
The official downfall of the Roman Empire was during the rise of Chritianity.

Answer 7

the fall of rome startet whith the divide of the empire in the eastern roman empire and western roman empire .the eastern roman empire with the capital in constantinopon(today istambul)fall first on the attacks of the barbarians tribes that come from asia.the western wmpire rezistet for about ten years but eventualy it fall under the attacks of the barbarians.rome and the italic peninsula was ocupaid by the ostrogoti

Answer 8

Christians!

Answer 9

Youre Zeus, ******* figure it out you sad piece of ****. Go kill yourself with a salt covered blade, you ******* ******

Answer 10

For the reason of corruption !