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media type="custom" key="9493372" width="135" height="135" align="right" =__The Fall of the Roman Empire__= ====There are many reasons why the Roman Empire fell. We will tell you some of the most important ones. First, the Empire fell because they struggled to control their vast lands. One emporer, named [|Diocletian], tried to solve this problem. He divided the empire temporarily, but that didn't appear to help them so the next emporer united it again. The empire was permanently split up when [|Constantine] was in power. He made the new capital named[| Constantinople]. Then, after the western Roman Empire fell his empire became the Byzantine empire after the city where he built his capital, [|Byzantium].==== ====Another issue was money. This problem might have been the biggest. The Roman emperores, since there were two empires now, were low in funds. They weren't able to collect taxes well. Since the Persians and a bunch of enemies in the north were attacking all of the wealthy were sealing themselves away. There weren't many wealthy either. Only 5 in 100 people lived luxurious lives. The poor had no surplus to pay the taxes and it all just got worse.==== ====One of Rome's big problems was that there was a rebellion. Poor people were realizing that they wouldn't get the nice peace that they wanted. They realized that the Pax Romana, or Roman peace, was ending. They even realized that there wasn't much of a chance that Rome was going to survive this attack, even though they had lived through many like it. The poor became restless. Some even got to the point where they just left.==== ====Another problem that ran off of their low funds was the military. The soldiers needed to be paid. The low funds that the government had couldn't fund this army. Slowly and steadily the army got smaller and smaller. This was a major problem. Finally, the government got the taxes back and raised them super high. Then, the taxes were so high that the people joined the arrmy in hordes to avoid the taxes. Now, there weren't enough people to charge taxes on. This problem they couldn't solve.==== ====Finally, the Romans fell from being overcrowded. Unfortunately for the Romans the Asian nobles were taking more land for their proud selves. They pushed the next level of Asians west some which in turn pushed the next group west and so on... Eventually all these people were pushed toward Rome. Rome wouldn't have it so they pushed the newcomers around their empire and not in it. These people got mad by cramped quarters and saw that empty land held by the Romans. They made rebellions, they joined the forces attacking the west Roman Empire. They tore down the west Roman Empire. That was where they stopped.====