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    Ancient Rome was an empire so dominant, wealthy and economically- stable which came to a dramatic fall in the period of 250AD- 500AD. Ancient Rome faced unexplained unfortunate events which crumbled the Great Empire from the affluent empire to a impoverished society. For centuries historians have timelessly theorised and analysed many debates and research in relation to the Fall of the Roman Empire. What really caused the predominate Roman Empire to fall? Did Rome fall naturally? Was disease, such

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    Fall Of Roman Empire

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    different factors and causes for the collapse of the Roman Empire. The three factors that I will evaluate and analyse today are economic, religious, and military factors. During the late years of the Roman Empire, it began to weaken and its foundation of the empire began to crumble down. The collapse of Rome was due to the three factors that I have listed above, and the factors that I will talk about in the paragraphs below. The Roman Empire was crumbling down to its doom due to the economic problems

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    In “The Fall of the Roman Empire”, the author Peter Heather talks about the ways the Roman empire conquered the many territories surrounding them and how strong of an empire the Roman empire was. He also talks about the build up of the events that caused the empire to fall. Peter also talks about the people that helped or was involved in the build up or the collapse of the Roman empire. Peter Heather mainly wrote this book to inform the reader of how the European barbarians got turned into enemies

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    Before the Roman aqueduct was engineered, the ancient Roman people depend on local water such as rainwater, springs, streams, and well water stored into cisterns or container. The water quality were a daily problem of the Romans and the droughts and drainage problems were even deadly. The engineering curiosity that implemented the rise of the Roman Empire and sustained the water solution. The Roman aqueducts was not all engineered by Roman inventions, the architects used the Greek designs like

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    Did the Roman Empire deserve to Fall? No, The achievements of the Roman Empire were unmatched at its time. Many things it accomplished are ideas and ways of life that did not become widespread until after its fall. The Roman Empire would have made the advancement of people in Europe much faster. The Roman Empire was the most modern ancient empire. It made many advancements in the arts and sciences. It had many great poets, philosophers, artists, and engineers. The Romans encouraged learning

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    discussing the greatest empires in the history of the world, one that will always be included in the conversation is the Roman Empire. With an empire that spread from Hadrian’s Wall to Arabia, it is considered one of the mightiest empires in history. There was no single factor or individual that can be considered to be the driving force behind the success of the Roman Empire. It is rather a success founded upon political policies, military strength and cultural prosperity. No empire in history has ever

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    the year 476 C.E. the roman empire was said to fell. The fall of the empire was blamed on many different factors. Factors that range from military failures to natural disasters and such. But, since the eastern half of the empire continued for almost a thousand years after in a form of the Byzantine Empire. A reason the empire is said to have fell is because of Christianity and loss of traditional. Loss. The rise of a new faith was a helpful key to the fall of the Empire. The religion ended the

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    B.C.E to 200 C.E, the Roman empire grew to an extraordinary height, yet Rome's greatest achievement, its expansion, also led to its downfall. Overall, social, economic, and political effects because of labor systems and slaves to military expansions were all a result of the Roman expansion and had severe effects on Roman society. As the Roman empire grew to it highest the gap between wealthy and poor became even more apparent. As more land was conquered by the Romans, the wealthy got more and

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    Throughout history, there has been many empires that was known for it’s power and strength. Roman empire was one of the empires, that was strong, powerful and known for its wise leadership at that period.  In 444 B.C., when Roman was experiencing internal peace, called the “Pax Romana”. This era was glory for the Rome because they were powerful. Rome continued to expand, controlled most of Europe, conquered Britain and spread its empire through Asia to North Africa. There was two factors that helped

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    The Main reasons the Roman Empire Crumbled The Roman Empire was one of the greatest empires in that era until something major happened. The Roman military became lazy because of how much freedom the citizens got in their life with the Huns. So what were the key reasons on how the Roman Empire to crumble? Rome crumbled because of its military problems in the army, foreign invasions that attacked Rome, and their poor political leadership in the government. Of these, the most important reason was

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