Why Did Rome Fall Essay

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I think Rome’s decline was because of weak political leadership, military weakness, and from disease and disasters. I think the main cause of Rome’s fall is from weak political leadership. The reason of this is because that generation did not have good leaders. Also more than twenty leaders were killed through 235-285 CE. More than seventy-five percent of those kills were assassinations.
First off, I think the main reason was weak political leadership. I think this and one of the reasons of this was because a Roman ambassador to the Huns who was named Priscus. This Roman Ambassador Priscus said that his new life is better than his old life band even said he had reasons. His reasons were that when Rome had peace it was worse than war. He said that taxes were very severe. He also said that a wealthy lawbreaker is not punished for his injustice, while a poor man undergoes the legal penalty. He also said the …show more content…

A violent and destructive earthquake, this earthquake caused the Mediterranean Sea was washed out (became dry) but the tide soon came back as a huge flood. This severely was in the coast of Sicily, Greece, and Egypt. This killed more than fifty thousand people and that was just from the city Alexandria itself. Their fearful vanity was disposed to the reasons why the empire was a sinking world. Diseases that helped the Roman empire fall came from the series of plagues that swept over the empire. This brought diseases from Southern Asia and the Mediterranean. This was to contagious like the measles. This took around seventy-five percent of their population. The population of Rome was from a million people to 250,000 people. They lost many troops and it was very difficult to get more troops. This could be part of Rome’s decline because it took most of their population and the invaders had more of a chance to win which they did to Rome because they had so many less troops compared to the

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