The Fall of Rome?

Question

I recall reading that Rome fell from power when they began to disregard the type of people who were coming into Rome without permission.

Why did Rome fall from power?

Answer 1

Are you familiar with the poem about the six blind men and the elephant? (Each thought the elephant was entirely like the small part - tail, trunk, leg, etc. - he could feel.) Theories about the decline and ultimate fall of the Roman Empire are like that. One expert says it was disease, including lead poisoning from lead water pipes. Another says it was excessive expansion. Another says it was corruption. And so on. Each expert finds the cause within the realm of his or her expertise.

The reality is that most big important things that happen over time happen for a lot of different reasons. On top of that, the history that actually comes through to us 2,000 years or so later is so fragmented that we may never know what really did happen.

One thing that seems to be true of all human history, though, is that power waxes and wanes (grows and declines) like the moon. There has never been an abiding empire. The forces that are necessary to create an empire don't seem to stay around once the creating is done. Success seems to breed decay.

Who will be next?

Answer 2

Using the word FALL is misleading. Rome did not fall one day. It gradually declined. The Rome Empire of Rome, Italy fell first but the center of the Empire had moved to what is now Turkey and became Constantinople, now Istanbul. So the Roman Empire last for centuries until the capturing of Constantinople by who came from Central Asia.

Answer 3

because they didn't pay the german mercaneries and the roman emperor was an idiot, when rome fell and his officers told he thought it was his rooster who died because he named it rome. it was a whole chain of events rome just stopped caring about it's people

Answer 4

The political system could agree on nothing leading to internal strife and the breakdown of there society .(power hungry upper class that would stop at nothing to get to the top;)

Answer 5

complacency, the details would require volumes