an empire so great...how did this empire fell?
2006-10-22 16:40:17 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Over-expansion aggravated by corruption, bureaucracy, and greed. The winds of change caught up with them and it's their time to fall after a long regime of being the superpower. Basically, the Romans just got tired of supporting that role and the governement's vision of expansion.
2006-10-22 16:56:40 · answer #1 · answered by DAX 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The accepted date of the fall of the (Western) Roman Empire is 476 AD when the last emperor was dethroned. But the causes of the fall of the Empire go back at least 100 years before that. The main cause of the fall was the Huns. They came from the East and drove all of the barbarian hordes (Goths, Vandals, etc) west into the Roman Empire. This caused massive problems in the early 5th century in the empire with rampaging barbarians in most provinces. The empire lost the revenue of some provinces (Gaul, Spain, Britian) during this time. Later, in the 440s AD, the Huns themselves invaded the empire (under the Scourge of God - Attila), conquered present day Hungary and went as far west as Gaul. They demanded hundreds of pounds of gold in annual tribute from the empire.
The short answer to the question is: The Huns.
2006-10-22 18:39:46 · answer #2 · answered by sirtitus 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Internally-moral decline and rise of Christianity
externally-attacks from barbarians
Also remember their was an eastern and a western Roman empire, the Western fell around 500 AD and the eastern fell about 1500 AD
2006-10-22 17:29:12 · answer #3 · answered by mk_matson 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The fact that 80/90% of Roman soldiers and officials in western Empire army were of barbarian ancestry or birth , i read somewhere that on 220000 western Roman soldiers in 400 Ad only 40000 were latin , italic, Celtic and iberians half of them belonged to elite praetorian troops disclosed around Italy.
2016-05-21 23:59:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apathy of the people due to corrupt government, and people unwilling to come together to save Rome. They were disillusioned, God was mad at them, the lower classes hated them, and it crumbled from within with polarizaiton of elite and serfs.
Plain and simple all falls are due to opression and poverty.
Hopelessness also adds when control is taken from commoners they give up.
Now pay attention if it happened in rome and egypt and greece and america adopted all three styles of government just watch the daily news and you will see what happned then happening right now. Just alittle mor modern version of the same crap.
2006-10-23 07:08:57 · answer #5 · answered by eg_ansel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Infighting between the higher ranking government officials and random attacks from roaming barbarians.
2006-10-22 20:04:42 · answer #6 · answered by Walty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok, so obviously many things lead to the fall of the Roman Empire.
i think this summary will help you better than any of the answers on here... it is a series of events...
2006-10-22 19:51:31 · answer #7 · answered by christy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greed, that is what causes the failure of all civilizations. Greed comes in many forms but it is basically the desire for more!
2006-10-22 17:37:25 · answer #8 · answered by Sweetie Poo 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
greed and betrayal
2006-10-24 00:32:54 · answer #9 · answered by Mira 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
poverty high taxes govenment not working well barbarians invading then crops being destroyed LEARN HISTORY!!!
2006-10-22 16:43:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋