There are many reasons the Roman empire fell but im going to focus on three. the first thing im going to talk about is the political problems. the senate became very corruupt and political instability came into existance. the emporer of rome divided the empire into two halves. when he did that he declared constantiople the new capital of the roman society. when he did that he claimed rule over all eastern provinces. the western roman empire lost its power over all of the town of the east causing a reduction in profits.
the second reason is they had military problems. in rome the citizens were expected to enlist in the military but instead of doing that they sneakily put their slaves in their positions so they didnt have to enlist. the slaves that were in the military were slow and didnt fight with courage. they did this because they could care leess about rome. that stunk for the older men who had in the past were in the military because after they were in the military they bought house or estates in rome to live in. it was bad for them because now rome was declining because the current military didnt care.
the third and final reason that rome fell was they had economic problems. the city of rome depended a lot on their economy. rome had nothing to trade. after they wouldnt trade the cities withing the empire stopped sending funds to rome. rome also had high taxes and that was another issue. that problem caused anxiousness among many classes in ancient rome. disease was another key part in the fall. malaria became a regular occurence killing up to 20% of rome in 150 years.
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