It had a decline because their emperor died, the economy fell and Germanic tribes invaded Rome. The Roman Empire declined from Economic and Military reasons. It declined because it ended the Pax Romana period with the death of Marcus Aurelius in 152 AD, who was the emperor that made the Roman Empire reach its peak, which began violence. Aurelius’s son, Commodus, bankrupted treasury in 192 AD and over the next century, Romans began to fight each other. The economy went down because of the rising prices.
With the lack of soldiers, it would be easier to invade Rome, which could’ve led to the decline of the Empire. This proves that internal decay was one of the major causes for the end of Rome. Document 6 shows the invasions of Barbarians in 476 on the Roman Empire. This demonstrates that the government and military were becoming weaker to the point where they weren’t strong enough to protect the empire from invasions. The government could not control all these invasions, so this was another component that helped the fall of the Roman Empire.
The military was declined of patriotism and loyalty among soldiers. It was people against the army. West european democracies cause a fall of the roman empire. The failure of the armies made people change their opinions about the army. Goth alaric and vandal gaiseric commanded 40,000 and 20,000 warriors
This occurred sometime around 509 BC, and led to the creation of a new form of government called a republic.1 However, as the centuries passed, the republican dream slowly began to fade. Quite obviously, many things happened in the world of Rome that led to the eventual collapse of the Roman Republic. At around 133 BC, Rome was a republic. But less than a hundred years later, an emperor ruled it.1 An imperial system as a form of government was very different from the system that was envisioned by the Romans when they deposed the last king near the end of the 6th century BC. An imperial system was against everything Romans stood for.
The causes for the fall of Rome can be divided into four categories: political, military, economic and social. Using the information you have read, identify one cause in each category and explain how it contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire. Military: Around the 4th century AD, the Roman military had become significantly feebler, mostly to the barbarians who had been attempting to breach Rome's borders for years. Soon, the barbarians began to gain access to the Western Empire on an even larger scale then before, first as minor groups of settlers and soldiers, but ultimately as entire tribes. They sensed military flaws and began to found small kingdoms, like Gaul, Spain.
Secondly the adoption of Christianity ruined unity in Rome. Thirdly Rome`s military short comings ruined their civilization in the long run. In conclusion the Roman Empire caused its own demise. Rome`s economic policies created an unsustainable Rome. When the Roman system of capturing foreign lands and enslaving them started to fail so did the Roman economy, the over inflation of the Roman economy lead to a loss of economic freedom, the Romans lack of innovation lead to an
Otho had sent his troops to late and his army suffered a horrible defeat. When he heard of this defeat ,he killed himself .Otho had reigned for barely 95 days.Aelius Vitellius was the next emperor. He abandoned himself to exaggeration and all but ignored the troops who had given him the throne. Also, upon hearing that the troops of his rival ,Vespasian, were approaching Rome Vitellius begged the senate to allow him to leave the throne and live as a private citizen so he could be
In turn this would destroy Britain commercially and their industrial economy allowing Napoleon to take over Britain however did not work and left Napoleon worse off then he was before. His next mistake was the Peninsular war and as a result weakened his empire even more by the Spanish guerrillas, Germans, and Italians turning against him. Lastly his third mistake lost him most of his soldiers and the tactic used to defeat him was the scorched-earth policy, by the Russians. These mistakes greatly weakened Napoleons Empire. The empire was then declared war on by Britain, Russia, Prussia, Sweden, and Austria.
Theodosius had divided the empire into the Eastern and Western Empires but upon his death, the treaty between the Visigoth’s and Rome was relinquished causing the Visigoths to rebel and invade Italy ("The Fall of the Roman Empire", n.d). In efforts to escape the Huns, various Germanic tribes (barbarians) kept moving through Rome and the Western Empire did not have an army that was able to stop them so the Barbarians overran Rome and plundered it for three days leaving the Empire’s material resources so depleted that there wasn’t really anything that could be done to save it ("The Fall of the Roman Empire", 2010). Soon after, Attila the Hun along with his 100,000 soldiers terrorized both empires, even though they plundered seventy cities in the Eastern Empire they were unable to get through the walls of Constantinople and while they were in the Western Empire famine and disease kept them from gaining victory ("The Fall of the Roman Empire",
Civil War reduces the strength of the Roman Empire and made it vulnerable to the barbarian invaders because stalled expansion. What stalled expansion is they spent all their time fighting between themselves left less time for expansion, although it was accelerated as generals conquered foreign territory as shows of power.Gernals tightened roman defenses due to fear of inner raids, but this helped against outer attacks against enemies such as barbarians. Roman armies lost many soldier in wars which became difficult to replace overtime and this reduced the strength of the Roman Empire. Not only did stalled expansion play a part of the reduced strength of the roman empire such as it is today people in the roman armies and cities and governments had their opinion who the ruler should be and this caused civil war to break out in the roman empire and it caused the strength of the roman empire fall and made to vulnerable to outer attacks. The citizens of Rome became lazy and self-indulgent because.