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Question

y did the roman empire fall?

Answer 1

Same reasons the USA is going down: Christianity, decadence, greed, financial trouble, and military problems

Answer 2

The Roman Empire fell pretty much the same way all great entities fall. Greed, corruption (politicians...go figure), poor health creating weakness. They were failing to see the world around them. Their military was spread thin, economic polars (Haves and have nots with not much in the middle). Christianity has been blamed, but not really as big of an issue as the inner decay. Look at Russia as a modern day Rome.

Answer 3

Mainly because it got so big it could not afford to keep the people happy or safe anymore. Plus, most of the countries were taken over with brutality and were waiting to jump on the chance to become independent once more. The empire stretched so far, that it way too hard to control and uphold the laws that the Romans inflicted upon the people. Corruption of the senators and leaders was easy to do when the empire was so overwhelmed with issues and rebellion.

Answer 4

Because the emperors abused their powers. They over-taxed the citizens who revolted. The military could not handle all the fronts, the revolts of the citizens and the attack of outsiders like the Germanic tribes. Persia attacked the eastern part of the empire and the military broke down.
Diocletian emerged as emperor and slowly transformed the empire into something resembling the medieval feudal system.
Constantine successfully fought off his opponents and assumed the position of emperor. He reorganized the entire system of local government (into prefectures, dioceses, and provinces). He legalized Christianity (and was himself converted), thereby enlisting the church in service of the state. His reforms were not to enough to stop the fall of the empire.
In 395 the empire was permanently divided into western and eastern. The eastern empire fell in 1453 when it was conquered by the Turks. The western empire was overrun and divided among various Germanic tribes. In 476 the German Odoacer deposed the last emperor of the west, the child Romulus Augustulus.

Answer 5

The roman empire fell because of a few reasons. After the emperor Marcus Aurelius died the generals were all fighting for power. Attila the Hun forced the germans to come into rome. After a while the germans in rome finally kicked out rome's emperor. This ended the roman empire. The major causes were military, government, economics, and epidemics.

Answer 6

Greed, Lust, Inbreeding, Sexual Immorality, decadency

It fell because its political make-up left it unable to defend itself against invasion. The Roman Empire was under authoritarian rule, disunited and with many opposed to that rule. Emperors feared arming people. Many lacked the sense that "Roman" rule was worth protecting. The empire's military security was not communities of men ready for mobilization at command from central authority. Instead, people from outside the empire were able to march into the empire with only feeble opposition. Around the year 395, Huns pushed on Germanic peoples, and these Germans crossed the Danube River in great numbers and into the Roman province of Pannonia, and the Roman population there fled westward. The empire was further challenged in 399 when Alaric and his army of Visigoth warriors and civilians moved across the Alps and into Italy. Then, in the winter of 406-7, a coalition of Germanic warrior tribes with their farm animals and children crossed the frozen Rhine River into Gaul. The invaders found only feeble opposition as they spread out, some of them going as far as the Pyrenees Mountains, while only a few towns, among them Toulouse, attempted a significant resistance.

Answer 7

Internal fighting for power between the Eastern Empire and the Western Empire, weakened their defence against outsiders, and internal provinces looking for self rule.
The Western Empire had collapesed by 500, but the Eastern Empire remained until 1453..!!

Answer 8

A few theories

.The Romans use lead solder in their pipes,some speculate rampant lead poisoning basically made the leaders insane

They fell from within,they got TOO secure,thinking they were invincible,they no longer wanted their troops stationed at the far reaches of the empire.They withdrew,became complacent,and were utterly destroyed by a smaller "hungrier"force(a lesson can be learned for today with that one)

Answer 9

I'm a bit confused. Isn't this a full credit of classroom study? I'm not sure if this question can be fully or properly answered in this kind of forum, but perhaps someone out here can summarize things for you in such a way that it will take in every aspect of roman life.

Answer 10

I think it was because their empire got to stretched out and they could no longer control it. Emperor Nero was said to have played the fiddle while Rome burned.