What caused the fall of rome?
What caused the fall of rome?
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What caused the fall of rome?
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Sissyfication of the elites caused by absolute monarchy.
Same process with general populance caused by christianity
Historians armed with their bullshit spun the Fall of Rome with their typical political propagandists' lies.
euro genes
Volcanic activity. Earthquakes. The buildings fell.
The harsh realities of ruling the empire where your enemies are becoming ever stronger. Strong military men were required to rule late in the Empire, they were not adept at administration and diplomacy.
barbarians. People say it was many things but it was the constant barbarian invasions that pushed Rome to always be near its breaking point. Every other answer is cope by modern historians rooting for their ancestors. Hence the term "Migration" Period
Barbarians also extended the life of the Empire by serving in the ranks.
>Barbarians also extended the life of the Empire by serving in the ranks.
that's was a stop gap measure that didn't work. It started off rather small in Constantine's time and only ramped up during and after Theodosius' reign because Valens got the eastern army destroyed. That's barely a century and that century was an unstable mess. You had barbarian hordes like Alaric's that "fought" for Rome but also kept raiding and pillaging within the empire
It started well before Constantine
learn the difference between auxiliaries and the actual Roman Army
Learn what you're actually talking about, I am talking about the Roman Army.
Pre-Constantine barbarian recruitment was almost always just auxiliaries. In the cases where barbarians were enrolled into the actual army they were always split up into tiny groups and spread out and forced to giving up their barbarian identity. This is a completely different system compared to the later Roman empire that allowed allowed barbarians to continue as a nation and follow their kings as well as giving barbarian kings and their nobility ranks with the Roman army giving them a dual role. You are the one who needs to actually learn about the evolution of the roman army
>Roman empire that allowed allowed barbarians to continue as a nation and follow their kings as well as giving barbarian kings and their nobility ranks with the Roman army giving them a dual role
So what you're saying is, Goths extended the life of the empire
>as giving barbarian kings and their nobility ranks with the Roman army giving them a dual role
Only Alaric, and very temporarily Gaiseric ever achieved that.
Christian barbarians! They were mostly Arians, a heretical sect. They didn't like being cheated of what was promised to them by Rome! By then Rome had become a poor backwater city as all the loot went to Constantinople!
>By then Rome had become a poor backwater city as all the loot went to Constantinople!
There is no proof of this btw. Emperors like Constantius II and Theodosius marvelled at just how wealthy and grand the city of Rome was when they come on their state visit.
Germs, and not the microscopic kind.
Are Germanic bulls fucking your wife right now?
>Mind immediately jumps to cuckoldry
Nice projection
The Roman warm period ended, grain production fell and population declined. This affected their neighbors also, but their neighbors tended to be more pastoral therefore affecting them less than intensive farmers who depend on predictable weather.
New innovations had gradually spread from Rome itself, distant China and other places. Gothic shield walls and Hunnic cavalry would challenge the Legions. Despite the dark age cold period, intensive agriculture was spreading east, regions that were previously sparsely populated were now home to large groups of Germanic tribes.
There was a shift in the balance of power, Rome was no longer surrounded by iron age tribes who ate raw meat and charged them naked.
hey slow down here mate. This is a place for cynical shitposting, not for actually good arguments.
I wouldn't overlook morality decline though as it was probably a factor for the frequency of civil wars.
>hes doin a heckin Braudel! I kneel!
The midwit kind of superstition is even more pathetic than the classical kind, since it doesn't even apply to the domain of the natural and the gigantic.
End of constant expansion (lack of new soil and slaves), Antonine plague (smallpox), Cyprian plague (hemorrhagic fever virus), Diocletian (overgrown state, decline of Rome in importance), Constantine (moving centroid of power to the east), Volcanic winter of 536, Justinian plague (black death bacteria), Justinian, Christianity (it led to separatism via miaphysitism, monophysitism, arianism, iconoclasm, and other disputes)
Blacks
The paranoia and extreme corruption of the senatorial class, and the institutionalized cycle of purges that began with the Gracchi brothers and was solidified by the Second Triumvirate. Any other answer is uninformed.
Christianity was the cause of the fall of Rome. The Roman Empire made the crusading mistake of abandoning paganism in favor of a belief in weakness and falsehood.
Inflation-corruption
Lead deficiency.