The once glorious Roman Empire slowly faded from riches to destitution. There were countless reasons for the tragic demise of the empire, but the most prevalent reason was the decline in political stability. In the absence of a stable government, there is chaos and stark division. We can see this in many societies in the past. Without a leader or group of officials to control and maintain order, the society ends up confused, and fighting occurs. They also would try to do things their own way, or they would all do nothing until their downfall. This was very evident in the Roman Empire due to the bad emperors who took charge and caused the political system to fail. One reason for the political decline was the bad decisions and mistrust of the bad emperors. First, high taxes were imposed, causing the wealth to deplete. Taxation, like the taxes imposed from Emperor Galerius (who ruled from 305-308 AD), caused Roman citizens to go bankrupt and forced them to move to the city which led to even more problems. Secondly, the decisions made by some of the emperors to expand the military was another reason for the fall of Rome. At first, expanding the …show more content…
The Roman Empire spread from Spain in the East, to Iraq in the West, and from England in the North, to Egypt in the South. Communication was extremely limited over the extensive empire, so it caused the emperor to lose contact with most of the people on the outskirts. Emperor Diocletian had an idea, that was good at the time, to split the empire in two, but it eventually led to division and opposing leaders. With the division and lack of control, rebellions occurred and the Senate became even more corrupt trying to accept bribes and gain control. To make things worse for the already crumbling empire, barbaric invaders took advantage of the weak government and they invaded and captured much of Rome’s
The Roman Empire was one of the most impregnable empires at it’s time. It conquered the Mediterranean Sea and was a well organized and blooming empire, at first. Many problems began to hit Rome straight in the face, three of the main problems that ended this magnificent empire were the economic problems, the weakness and vulnerability of their army, and the fallibility of the leaders and politics.
The great Roman Empire expanded across all of Europe and into the Middle East. Its military was one of the finest. With major trading in Africa and Britain, the economy flourished with brining many citizens a healthy income. With amazing advancements in culture and technology, Roman society was at its finest. During the Pax Romana, the Romans had 200 years of peace and good ruling by level headed dictators and emperors. Despite Rome’s greatness in all of these areas, Rome would eventually fall. Surprisingly all of these qualities that led up to a flourishing empire were the same ones that led to its demise. As Germanic tribes invaded, the military weakened and the government became unstable.
Imagine you are in the Roman empire and about every year your emperor dies from either an assassination or suicide. Your military and government are starting to grow a plentiful amount of problems which are progressively getting worse leading to Rome's fall.The primary reasons for the fall of Rome were political assassinations, military problems, and foreign invasions.
There are many reasons for what happened to the Roman empire from economic problems and corruption, disasters and disease, foreign invasions, military weakness, and weak leadership. Out of all of those ideas, weak leadership might have caused many of the problems to happen. Weak leadership might have caused everything because leaders that do poorly in their job causes bad military, in control of the empire, and many assassinations of leaders making citizens feel unsafe according to document A (Roman Emperors, 235-285 C.E.). The government of Rome is not fair, has no justice, and has been becoming a dictatorship which they want everything. All of these political problems change Rome from a republic to a dictatorship.
There were many reasons for the decline of Rome and fall of the Roman Empire. Some of the reasons for the fall of Rome were military mistakes, economic and civic decay, and political instability.
The Roman Empire took over after the Greeks fell and it thrived over the years. But when the Pax Romana came along, the empire was developing a “soft belly” which was becuase of the upper class becoming lazy and losing their edge. At this point is where they fall. The reasons for the great empire fell because of their government, military, and the natural disaster problems.
Whether you prefer to say Rome fell due to the invasions or simply morphed into the oppressive and the corrupt government, economic policies of the emperors had a heavy impact on the lives of the citizens of Rome. The Roman Empire acquired money by taxation or by finding new sources of wealth, like land. However, it had reached its furthest limits, so land acquisition was no longer an option. As Rome lost territory, it also lost its revenue base.In doc# 4: we can see how the economy and citizens were taken advantage of and how the economy was not stable enough, led to the fall of Rome. The empire's main focus was on expanding and funding towards the military and politics. They did not think of the flaws that came with expanding and soon realized that to expand they had to gain military strength, and that costs a lot of money. Immediately the government created high taxes taking advantage of the citizens that leaned on the government welfare system, forcing them to basically pay for advances in the military. This affected small business and companies to crash because they could not afford these taxes, leaving the economy weakened. Therefore the economy could no longer help provide for the military expansion and lead to military weakening. And when the military and the economy was down due to this “internal decay” Rome was easy to conquer and lost all power and eventually fell. Doc# 3 also shows that due to the expansion and Rome wanting to be a world power, it caused a distraction and the economy was used to fund the military success and power, with high taxes. The more it expanded the more the taxes cost and the weaker the economy was. Due to the money that was taken from the economy, Wages being low, slaves disappearing, great estates growing, agriculture was being dominated, it
The fall of the Roman empire was due to many things. Three of the main reasons were that Rome was so big that the borders couldn’t be protected. Most of the emperor's were assassinated or killed and battle, the currency went downhill which destroyed trade, and many Germanic tribes attacked at around the same time and took over Rome. The end of the Roman Empire is mostly caused by these reasons. Since Rome was so massive the outskirts of the empire was not very well protected which made it easier for attacking cities to just walk on in.
Political problems were one of the contributing reasons for the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Over 30 emperors ruled in a small period of 100 years. Most were unfit, greedy, and cruel. They only inherited the throne because their father was a former emperor, and because there was no system to replace an emperor. When the higher class, the Patricians, did not like the emperor, they would pay the Praetorian Guard, the secret service of the Roman Empire, to assassinate the emperor. The Praetorian Guard would also assassinate the emperor to gain a higher position. Because of there being no better replacement system, Civil Wars broke out in Rome. Legions fought legions, citizens revolted against the Government that was falling apart, the poor living conditions, and the high taxes.
The fall of the Roman Empire was caused by many things from barbarian invasions to a failing economy, many things went wrong for this empire all at one time the economy started to fail and even the people stopped working and joining the army and I want to know why and in this paper I will be explaining how exactly such a strong and once prosperous empire fell so quickly. If we really want to figure what actually happened to the Roman Empire we must start at the beginning of the downfall and many believe this was in the year 295 A.D when the Roman Emperor Theodosius died and the empire was taken over by his two sons Arcadius in the east and Honorius in the west and they were relatively good emperors and many people loved Honorius and he was the staple emperor for the Western Half of The Empire. But then the barbaric invasions started 11 years later and that was really the start of the fall but they also had other problems besides that, many of the politicians were only concerned with beating each other out of the political positions and not focusing to much on the threat of the
The fall of the Roman Empire happened slowly. There were many reasons for why Rome fell. One of the reasons say the empire was too big and there were not enough soldiers to guard the empire, some of which were not loyal because they did not want to be a part of Rome. Another reason says that Rome fell because citizens of Rome had to pay heavy taxes for the army, which made the economy weak. The taxes made many citizens go into poverty. Also, many Romans were unemployed. Small farmers could not keep up, so they tried to find jobs in the city, but there were still not enough jobs. A third reason to explain why Rome fell is that there was corruption and a decline in spirit of citizenship. Some emperors wasted large amounts of amounts of money
How could the once miniscule Roman Empire (once one of the largest empires to exist) be simply reduced back to comparable dust to that of its former rank? Since Rome’s humble beginnings, its reign has lasted nearly 650 years. These years were filled with vast culture, advances in law, medicine, and breakthroughs that would set the tone for Western Civilization. But this would all collapse into the enemy’s grasp, as all things must have an end. Primarily government corruption, military issues, and foreign invasion caused the defeat of Rome.
The end of the Roman republic was and very interesting point in time. This shows a period where there was neither any political or government stability throughout the civilization. From reading The book “ The Fall of The Roman Empire”, three reasons jumped out at me or the collapsing of this civilization. They were abuse of power , political corruption, and heavy military spending. The heavily military spending came from the Roman Empire capturing and invading other civilizations. In order for the Roman Empire to invade and conquer civilizations they would have to spend money to make sure that their soldiers are taken care of and that they are able to complete the task at hand. Most likely all of the soldiers in the roman army was not roman which means they had to recruit and deploy from rome of other lands of defenders and invaders. The romans expected the militia to protect their land and the land they have overpowered or captured. This requires a multitude of supplies and manufacturing of weaponry. The soldiers also had to have a place to sleep , they had to eat , and be supplied materials that can aid them when they were wounded or hurt. All of this spending on the military will lead to inflation of a civilization as it did the roman empire. Now the government will try to find a solution to this problem by raising taxes and making all types of laws that enables the citizens of rome to help sponsor the military. This will lead to riots and
The Roman Empire fell of multiple reasons. Some say it was because leaders were corrupted or it was economic issues. The reasons that will be talked about further on are, surrounding cities invaded Rome, Christianity spread, and their borders became to hard to control.
The Roman empire is known as a symbol of great power and wealth, but it was divided in 476 A.D.. The empire spanned from three continents and covered for forty countries, even from Northern England to Syria. The Romans had so much land, but not enough soldiers or people to use it or enforce the laws, making the Senate almost powerless in farout areas in Rome. With the shortage of soldiers and slaves there was no-one to protect the borders which led in many hostile tribes and native inhabitants in. Many Germanic tribes came from the north, with both of these forces the attacks were becoming unrelenting for the Empire. The senate ordered goods and decreased the value of the Roman currency even more, resulting in inflation. The Roman Empire already had a slowly decreasing economy and couldn’t handle the growing of infrastructure and the high military demands. According to Josh Brunsdon, “ The Empire grew too large and horribly fast, which led to emperors and the senate unable to fashion any type of control or address problems quickly enough.”. The over expansion of borders in the Roman Empire was a big contribution to other problems like inflation, taxation, and corruption of the