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 * __The Declinization of the Roman Empire__**



There are many reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire, and we will list one of the reasons in this paragraph. One reason was because their [|army was weak]. They were afraid to arm their subjects, and the army was full of non-trained slaves with low morale. They were getting attacked for the north and the east from vicious barbaric tribes. Their army became weak and poor. All the higly trained legionaries had retired and wanted nothing to do with goverment affairs. The north and east despised Rome very much.

This paragraph is about [|economic problems]. They taxed too much and the taxes were outrageously high, poorer people suffered from these taxes. Rome depended on the funds it got from the empire. They basically debased money, and during one rule they based it on the amount of silver in the coin! Since they were so cruel to the people in their empire, the people stopped sending Rome the funds they needed.



This paragraph is about Rome's [|political problems]. One of the reasons is that the senate became extremely corrupt. They accepted bribes for a wide arrangment of favors. Poor emperors were chosen and the plebians suffered for this, which started revolts. Also, Emperor Constantine divided Rome into two parts, which weakened it greatly. Since the Emperor claimed the East and made Constantinople, the new capital of the empire there, and because of that, the west lost all its power and reduced the empire's profits.

This paragraph is about [|religious problems]. They killed off thousands of Christians as entertainment in Rome. Then, further on, as Christians converted more people into Christians, the empire became worried. They did not want Christians as the major population. Later on, Constantinople unbanned Christianity in the empire. Unfortunantely, before the unbanning of Christianity, thousands of people that could've helped were slaughtered.

This is our conclusion about why [|Rome fell]. Rome fell because they had a weak army full of untrained, pitifull, slaves. They taxed all the poor people in the empire WAY to much, which made a lot of the empire poor. There goverment was extremely corrupt and they elected bad emperors who made poor decisions. They killed many Christians that could've helped Rome immensly. This is why Rome fell apart into pieces.

Bibliography

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