Mary,+William,+Ian

__The Decline of the Roman Empire__
From our 6th grade text book we got the following information. There are many reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire. For instants invaders from the North and East were attacking the Roman Borders.In Rome there was a time of peace. It was called the Pax Romana. It did not last for long though, it ended when large armies from Northern Europe began to invade. This might not have happened though if the empire wasn't too big. Another reason for the fall of the Roman Empire was that Diocletian split the empire into two parts. The Western and the Eastern. Diocletian was a Roman Emperor that devided the Roman Empire into two parts.

During the fall of the Roman Empire soldiers need supplies so they tried to trade, but theives held up travelers and pirates hijacked ships. This caused the trades to suffer. Rome also had bad communication with each other. Another reason for the fall of the empire was [|Christianity]. Before the attacks happened Jews started to worship God, so it was band. In the 4th and 5th centuries AD, people from [|Central Asia]began to migrate out from their homeland and cause havoc all over the Eurasian Continent.

Germanic people were forced to move out of their home country and forced to settle on the borders of the Roman Empire. Rome had fierce foreign enemies. The [|barbarians]. The city of Rome was attacked by the Visigoth in 410 and 455 signiling the fall of the Roman Empire. One of the main causes for the fall of the empire were [|Natural Disasters]. There were foreign wars, street wars, fires, revolts, plauges, and earthquakes.

The number of [|slaves] increased dramaticly during the first 2 centuries. The slaves started to revolt and started the slave wars. One of the most famous ones was the war led by the gladiator slave, [|Spartacus]. Many of the Romans argued and stressed that the slaves should be treated fairly. Spartucus was a she[erd form Thrace who was captured by the Roman Army. After he was sent to gladiator school he escaped and ambushed a cart from the army and took weapons. With those weapons they started to revolt. This was another reason for the fall of the Roman Empire.

The roman empire began in 44 B.C, and it fell in 467 A.D, from the Tribal cheifs/Kings they took local control. Many people in Rome didn't want to join the army because they didn't believe in killing people any more. Another reason why the Roman Empire fell is because of the christianity faith. We should be very careful now a days because we don't want to end up like the Romans.I say we shouldn't put all out troops in one area because There will be gaps for enemies to sneak in and ambush us.

 