Why did Rome fall??

Question

I need to write an essay for World Honors...my reasons for rome falling are government being too harsh,population decrease, and army problems. why are these important: if you think something else caused rome to fall let me no, i am open to change! PLEASE HELP ME!!

Answer 1

The separation of Constantinople and Rome in religion, commerce and geography when distance was a concern....
One interesting side note (i love side notes) is that the drinking water pipes where made of rolled lead. After reading about the emperors Nero and Caligula, I think the lead poisoning had a lasting and insidious effect on the Roman society. Roman women became infertile in many cases. Historians have found graves containing many infant skeletal remains thought to have been still born. Rome probably just collapsed under it's own bureaucratic weight (sound familiar) The ruling classes had raised taxes and levies beyond what ancient society could support.
These two links ought-to-do-ya.

Answer 2

Why Did Rome Fall

Answer 3

There are all sorts of reasons. First, the Roman Empire became so vast that it couldn't be defended. Also, the Romans got so egotistical that they believed no non-Roman could defeat them. They got lax, and "barbarians" started to make inroads. Actually, many of the "barbarians" had already been assimilated into Roman culture, but they weren't given the same rights as Roman citizens and became upset. They wanted their piece of the action. Also, Constantine the Great decided that he didn't want to have Rome as the capital anymore, so he founded Constantinople and tried to move the capitol there. But not many Romans wanted to move there--it was a backwater area still. It would be like moving from New York City to Podunk. So Rome was split into an eastern and western Rome. Even though western Rome fell, the eastern part of the empire continued on as the Byzantine Empire for several hundred years more.

Answer 4

Did the Empire fall or did it move?
The power and authority was given to Rome, and all the Roman Empire looked to Rome as the main city of the empire. Then farther along in history you find the Holy Roman Empire that lasted from 800 to 1800, the 1000 year kingdom that was promised to the priest's in the oldest writings that we have which were found in Egypt. Then in the same year 1800 John Adams was the first person to use the White House which signified the move of the empire once again...

The earlier empire in which you questioned the reasons of the fall of that portion of the empire.Theodosius I was the last Roman Emperor who ruled over an unified Roman empire. After his death in 395, the Roman Empire was permanently divided. The Western Roman Empire ended officially with the abdication of Romulus Augustus under pressure of Odoacer on 4 September 476, and unofficially with the death of Julius Nepos in 480.Despite brief periods of reconquest by its counterpart, the Eastern Roman Empire, widely known as the Byzantine Empire, the Western Roman Empire would not rise again. The Byzantine Empire survived for another millennium before being eventually conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1453.

Answer 5

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 6

According to the Romans, Rome fell when the Republic did. The return of the monarchy with Octavian as sole ruler, marked the end in the eyes of the Romans. The empire, however, met its demise at the hands of many factors which I will briefly outline for you.

The rise of the Christian Church, which encouraged its followers not to respect an power other than itself, served to undermine the power of the Roman state. This led to massive rebellions, and reduction in the cultural hegemony which the had benefitted the empire.

The invasion of the Huns from Central Asia, forced the primitive European tribes into Roman territory and eventually pushed the warlike Goths into Rome itself. This weakened Rome to the point where the final emperor captured by the Goths, was not even executed.

The increasing boldness of the occupied peoples of Western Europe, motivated the emperor Constantine to move the capital to Byzantium. The west was not particular wealthy nor fertile, whereas the near and middle east were exceedingly rich and were far enough away from the chaos of the west.

The city of Rome itself had grown entirely dependent on gold, grain and paper from African and from Asia. The split between the eastern and western halves of the empire left the city in a state of extreme poverty, instability and utter squalor.

The fall of the Roman Empire was primarily the result of increased threats on the western frontiers by th peoples displace by the Huns, the rise of the Church, and the loss of access to African and Asian resources.

Answer 7

Why did Rome fall? Add to all reasons already stated one more: "illegal immigrants". Germans, Gothes, Vandals, Slavs and other tribes kept moving from the eastern steppes to the borders of Eastern Roman Empire. The Emperor could not afford no war so he desided to let them in, so in exchenge they protect the border. But after one warrior moves in there comes his family and relatives and so on. So all these uninvited pple ruin local economy. When local economy on the border collapsed they moved futher inside the Empire. Next ones came on their place. Finally they started to feel like they own the place and just took what they need, ending up in Rome stealing everything including iron from the rooftops. And then came the gunnes and mashed up the rest. Adios, Western Roman Empire. Eastern Roman Empire managed to stay untouched by paying huge bribes to the leaders of "barbarians".
So illegal immigration is no joke, watch USA and EU follow the same route.

Answer 8

Rome fell for the same reason that all plutacracies fail (goverment by and for the wealthy elite) the officials, not having anyone to answer to become totally currupt, debauched, then insane with their own diabolical schemes
and resulting paranoia.

Answer 9

Slipped on Greece.

sorry, couldn't resist.