Christianity
Many people in Rome held onto the Pagan views, while many others followed Christianity. The Christians spread their belief. Christianity ultimately got rid of the pagan/ Roman values set up for hundreds of years. People didn't know what to do. Rome ended up being a Pagan empire until the first Christian emperor Constantine. He legalized Christianity and with two completely different religions, and one contradicting the empire, Rome eventually fell.
Economic
Inflation played a large factor in the economic decrease in the empire of Rome. What the Roman government did was instead of basing the coins on say 5 cents or 1 cent, on the amount of silver or gold in the coin which created inflation. Inflation became so high that small landowners couldn't afford their taxes so they sold themselves into slavery because they thought that being a slave was better than being in debt and free.
military problems
The soldiers lost their moral because they had spent days and weeks defending the border of the empire from barbaric attacks. It was also very hard for the government to keep up with its pay for military operations and the government was forced to hire others. These others being from foreign countries, barbaric people which made the military highly unreliable and expensive. Because the government was spending money that it really didn't have, it kept making the inflation worse helping the decline of the empire of Rome.
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