Has anyone ever stopped and observed that almost every one of history’s monumental societies aren’t around or at their full potential right now. Now, most of theses unique cultures only survive in the internet and books around the Earth. There can be multiple ways that each single society spirals into just a section of a different country or culture. But, there are only a few that can shape the entire downfall of the world’s greatest empires. Political corruption can provide less funds to the public and leave a society unsteady, and more unprepared for an incursion. Civil wars kill many natives who fight against each other, and often end up with many people dead and the country susceptible to other forces. Outside invasion destroys a culture, and usually ends almost every great nation or empire. Civil wars, outside invasion, and political corruption are the components of failing civilizations that impacted the societies’ absolute fall.
Civil wars are an exceedingly significant reason that immense societies collapse. These wars with a country against itself tear the nation into two parts, or leave them vulnerable to attack. In Syria since March 2011, there has been a ceaseless conflict that has ravaged the country located in the Middle East. The war has been fought because one side believes that the current leader shouldn’t be in power anymore. The opposing force supports the government, and wants their ruler, Bashar al-Assad, to stay in office and govern the territory. Tens of thousands of Syria’s own people died fighting each other, over who had power, and has greatly deteriorated the country. “More than 2.5 million Syrians have fled their homes since the outbreak of civil war in March 2011, taking refuge in neighboring countri...
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...rominent empires were civil wars, political corruption, and invasion from outside forces. Civil wars kill many of a civilization’s people who fight against each other over varied reasons, and often leaves them susceptible to invasion. Political corruption has contrasting forms, and for the most part take money and supplies away from critical tasks, leave a society unstable, and more unprepared for an attack from the outside. Each of these cases have happened numerous times over the course of time. Governments and their people have to glance back to those events, and do what they can so they can pull through and move on. If countries or societies to not attempt this, they will descend and disband into another culture. In the end, a society will collapse into nothing or get up again depending on whether they choose to watch for what others have done wrong, and fix it.
The war in Syria has been going on for six years now, killing more than a quarter million people and forcing over 10 million people to leave their homes. It has started with a peaceful protest and is now a full on genocide of people dying. The protest was for the arrest and torturing of Syrian teens for the graffiti of their anti government on a wall. When people form other people that were tired of the government saw this, they wanted their president to make major reforms of their democracy. He didn't like that, so he responded with a violent reaction. He killed thousands of Syrians and more from starvation. As the war went on, more people came in to play a role in the war. These people were from many different places. It has gotten so bad that politicians don't know what to do to stop it.
What can cause a strong empire to fall? Rome is known for having many achievements that have helped to advance culture such as, aqueducts, irrigation systems, and trade. They also helped improve the structure of cities by plotting them in grids which are still used today. Also, religions were taken very seriously. In fact, it got so serious that rulers insisted that they were to be worshiped as the god. Religion was a huge part of Rome’s structure. But when conflicts of religions surfaced, failure rose. Religion may not seem like a huge issue, but actually, it is one of the biggest problems known in history. This along with poor leaders and urban decay has contributed to the decline of Rome.
The once great Western Roman Empire, known for its imperialistic authority, political efficiency, and economic sustainability, slowly deteriorated. The Empire began its collapse and the pillars that once supported the great domain cracked and began to crumble. With inconsistent leadership, division into two empires and conflict with the Germanic tribes, The Empires gradual decline foreshadowed an inevitable fall. Though its reign proved tremendously successful in retrospect, it fall proves significant as it paved the way for the thriving empires of the East to emerge.
What makes a country or empire so powerful? Is it a leader, the military, or even the people? These all do. They make a certain connection due to the success of an empire. You can they’re the “Three Musketeers” of one. The old Roman Empire and the United States have that connection. Both were in great power, had prosperity, and were strong in their own unique ways. But what if the United States falls dramatically—just like the Roman Empire did in 476 AD? What would we do? This fall would not be based on mythical angry gods, but our decisions in life today. The political, military, economic, and social judgments we make present day—believe it or not—are based on our future consequences.
The Roman Empire was the most powerful Empire during Antiquity. It is traditionally considered to have “fallen” in 476, when Rome’s last emperor was deposed. Many theories have been presented as to why it fell, from unsound economic and social policies to mass lead poisoning. The actual cause of Rome’s fall is the result of many factors, but was mainly caused by Rome’s poor economic policies.
Ultimately, history proves that the Roman mistreatment of the people they encountered and conquered led to the downfall of their civilization. They rose from unprecedented heights as an empire, aided by geography and talented leadership, to becoming the most influential civilization to ever live, but they could not escape their actions toward others. Their cruelty toward their own poor citizens and massive slave population, as well as the many cultures they dealt with, was a recipe for disaster. As Edward Gibbons concluded, “The story of its ruin is simple and obvious...instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised it has subsisted so long.”
18: Rome, the massive Empire consumed the Mediterranean and all of the territories that surrounded it. Rome was not only the foundation of artistic, intellectual, and cultural dominance; it also became the main influential reason of genius in so many of the existing societies of the western world. As always we have to take the good with the bad and take the losses with the gains. What no one knew at the time was that the long lasting dominance that the Roman Empire created would eventually fail. With a loss comes an opportunity for a second chance, for a rebirth of sorts that could only be a dream for other civilizations. With the collapse of one of the greatest empires, opportunities surfaced for new and upcoming societies to take advantage of.
Great and successful empires are built on a foundation of many interconnected and moving parts. They include, but are not limited to, its leadership, workforce, location, and access to many resources such as building supplies, technology, and a means to fuel both people and the empire itself. Most importantly an empire cannot be built without a mass number of people and a means to attract even more people to join the empire to thus ensure the growth and prosperity of the empire through the acquisition of their lands, monetary resources, technologies and knowledge. One of the greatest empires in human history is that of the Roman Empire. With its great military success, far-reaching control over mass amounts of land and populations, social reforms, and innovative technological accomplishments, the Roman Empire still influences our lives and world today. The most obvious presence of the Roman Empire in today’s world is that which was physically left behind. The Roman
All empires must come to an end. The Mongols, Ottomans, and Holy Roman Empires all don’t exist anymore. Even, the United Stated of America will come to its end in one point in time. Everything that goes up must come down. Even, Rome, one of the world’s greatest civilizations. To summarize, The Roman Empire fell because of ineffective leaders, the crumbling economy, and invasions by the Germanic Tribes.
The fall of Rome has been a debated and questioned topic on many minds since the empire’s demise. The Roman Empire was the greatest and largest to have ever exist and people have wondered how such a great domain could have fell. There have been countless theories and reasons that have been credited to have caused this fall. These vary from political causes to social changes and even to spiritual matters. The real reason Rome fell was because of the overexpansion of its territory. The empire was spread throughout most of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Overexpansion caused the government to be unable to effectively rule all of the areas in the empire and drained the money and resources needed to care for the people.
The Western Roman Empire had a huge conquest, and seemed like it could last for many generations. But unfortunately the cause of their downfall was their political, economic, diseas/illnesses, and invading tribe problems that got to the throat of their empire.
Throughout history, there have been a variety of great and powerful empires. However, regardless of how powerful they were able to become, each empire had it's unfortunate downfall and ultimate ending. Perhaps two of the most powerful empires ever to exist and crumble were the Roman and Egyptian empires, both of which enjoyed long periods of wealth and success in their pasts. While the two empires operated on extremely different terms and conditions, there is undoubtedly good reason for comparison of their downfalls considering that the causes generally surrounded the fact that the empire suffered invasions. Of course, this was not the only reason in either case, but in both circumstances invasion played a significant role in the fall.
Collapse is a disastrous outcome that any nation or empire is susceptible to. Empires that are made up of even the most advanced citizens and span hundreds of miles are at risk of collapse. Rome was one of the biggest empires in the world, yet, they fell. This failure can be caused by lack of communication-- a devastating issue. If not resolved communication barriers can cause anything from the Roman Empire to small companies to collapse.
In the past we see that any great empire or nation has fallen,or declined. The Roman Empire was huge, taking over Egypt and Greece. It was a great empire, but eventually fell. The people's ability to not follow lead to the Fall of the Roman Empire because of the army, the government, and even the religion.
Most of the civilizations throughout history have been taken over or replaced by other civilizations due to disunity and chaos. Although an empire might seem prosperous, the decline and fall of empires are sometimes inevitable. Even though an empire might seem invincible, there are many factors that could lead to the sudden decline or fall of an empire. Over many centuries, historians have composed many reasons, such as weak militaries, economic burdens, dynastic successions, and external enemies, which have been known to contribute to the rise and fall of many once successful empires.