What caused the fall of rome?

What caused the fall of rome?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Sissyfication of the elites caused by absolute monarchy.
    Same process with general populance caused by christianity

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Historians armed with their bullshit spun the Fall of Rome with their typical political propagandists' lies.

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    euro genes

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Volcanic activity. Earthquakes. The buildings fell.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Barbarians also extended the life of the Empire by serving in the ranks.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >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

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It started well before Constantine

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            learn the difference between auxiliaries and the actual Roman Army

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Learn what you're actually talking about, I am talking about the Roman Army.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            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

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >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

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >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.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      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!

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >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.

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Germs, and not the microscopic kind.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Are Germanic bulls fricking your wife right now?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Mind immediately jumps to cuckoldry
        Nice projection

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >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.

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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)

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Blacks

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Inflation-corruption

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Lead deficiency.

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