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 * __The Roman Empires Fall__**

There are many reasons why the Roman empire fell. One of the reasons was tax. Tax collecting kept hurting them. Some people would become a slave because they did not have any money to pay the taxes and they didn't have anogh money to pay for food. This was because tax collecters were trying to get to much money. Many people were poor and very few were living a good life.

Rome did not think and plan things out very well. To much power went to one person. They did not have a very good millitary.Although the millitary was big it was not was not very strong. Rome also had bad communication, this weakend trade. we found this information [|here].

One of the big reasons is their fast expansion of their empire and led to need to defend the borders of the empire. Rome had many unemployed citizens. This is because once they took over a place they came back with vast amounts of slaves. The citizens without jobs were money broken and had been forced into slavery for suvival.

Roman army became over-stretched and needed more and more soldiers. Barbarians and other foreign mercenaries were allowed to join the Roman army. Barbarians secretly joined the Roman army and became knowledgable about their military tactics. These barbarians eventually turned against the empire and were called Visogoths, they were led by Alarias, an ex-roman soldier.

One of the many reasons Rome fell was because of Christianity. Life seemed hopless while the Roman empire had been in the sight of Chritianity. Constantine thought christianity would save the empire from anything that threatened them. Christianity taught the belief in an afterlife that gave hope and courage to the desperate. The emperor, Constantine eventually proclaimed himself a christian and issued an edict promising the christians his protection and favor.



The Roman empire could have done many things to save their empire. First they could have took some time to look at the empire and relize that there was many things that things were wrong. The tax collecters should have done fair taxing instead of giving high or low tax to certain people. Also the goverment should not have let anyone who wants to be in the army. The one thing that the Roman empire really needed to do was, not take many slaves with them when they took over a new place. Because of all of the slaves they took all of these things happened.