Rome's Military Mistakes Essay

Rome has fallen and cannot get up. Rome may have begun as a tiny settlement in 750 BCE; however, by 200 BCE, the war machine known as Rome, had taken out all of their major rivals. As Julius Caesar came to power, the well working Republic had shifted to an empire. Then, things took a turn for the worse. Critics may argue that foreign invasions was the main contributor to Rome’s decline, but the true contributors to the fall of Rome were the empire’s military mistakes and moral decline in society. Military mistakes was a big problem for the Romans. The Roman military was as good as a rock at fighting. Also, the people of Rome had a only-do-what’s-expected-of-me attitude. That is not going to cut it for a first-class and massive empire. To begin, Rome’s military could not be described in a single word. The choices and actions they executed were simply lazy, weak, and whimpy. In the ancient book, Concerning Military Matters, by the Roman historian Vegetius

One fact in a chart compiled by various sources is that Rome went through twenty-two rulers in a fifty year period. This fact shows that the people of Rome were especially stubborn, violent, and unaccepting during the fifty year period. This is not an ideal environment for everybody, from the poor to the rich. Clearly the violence of the Roman people was present. In addition, Ammianus Marcellinus states that, “The Hun’s exceed any definition of savagery...so wild...completely ignorant.” This very interesting statement shows that the people of Rome liked to describe their enemies as animals so it is easier to kill them. To them it is easier to kill an animal then it is to kill a human. The harsh and violence everybody now contains in Rome truly shows in this horrible description. In the end, Rome’s moral decline ended the all-mighty Roman empire because of the do-what’s-expected-of-me attitude and the harsh environment