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Fall Of Rome: Roman MIlitary
The roman military started to crumble when Rome was conquering lands and adding more to their empire.It created more difficulty during war to control and govern the lands except.The goverment started to pay the soldiers to watch and guard the frontier of the empire which was hard because they had taken a large amount of money out of the roman treasury. Some of the emperors were wanting to save the money but it was just to hard because that would equal a small army for such a big empire. -
Fall Of Rome:Laws
The laws at the time Rome was crumbling were almost non existent. The west portion of the empire was falling the citizens saw no need to work, and saw no chances of getting ahead. So the empire started to use a disagonized system of old roman laws. -
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Fall Of Rome:Leaders
The 50years of decline begun under Commudus. He ruled from 180 C.E-192 C.E. Commudus didnt care about the work but was only interested in the money entertainment. He started to allow other peple to help him run the empire.When the goverment would start to lose money Commudus would order death of the wealthy citizens and would take their money.Diocletiane tried to save the empire and said to split it up into west and east sides of rome. There would be a ruler of the east and a ruler of the right. -
Fall Of Rome:Decline Of the Republic
In Rome the emperors and leaders were being assassinated and the consuls were not respecting eachothers vetro power. People had to take money out of the roman treasury to be fead. Rome was losing money because know other countries were buying off goods from them and only rome was buying goods off other countries. this was starting to effect the lives of many and rome was falling. The decline lasted 50years. -
Fall Of Rome:Econamy
In Rome the econamy was suffering very badly. They started to make new coins out of lead and gold but were worth less than the old coins.This started to create inflation and plauged the empire. Soon it became dangerous to trade on the land which lead to decreases in wealth. -
Fall Of Rome: Constantaine
In 324 C.E Constantaine took over as emperor. He named a city in east of rome called Constantinople and wanted a new capitol that would be a christian city so the decided to pack up and move to Constantinople. East of rome had great trade and money because of location by sea and high quality protection and the wealthiest lived their. On the other hand west of rome was falling and not doing as great as the east side. They had a bigger boarder to protect but never had enough money to protect them. -
Fall Of Rome: Empire Crumbles
Historians belive on that the year rome had fallen was 476 C.E. Rome was captured by a german chief named Odoacer and made himself king. Peolple who stilled lived in the empire still had considered themselves roman citizens and still obeyed roman laws. The contribution to the fall was politics, econamy,leaders and others had made one of the strongest empires collapse. -
Fall of Rome
<a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWcfjO1gQ' > the fall of Rome video is a short 4 minnute video about the western empire falling. -
Fall Of Rome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ-GrWpdCE0&feature=related is a 2 minute video explaining why the strongest empire crumbled because of wealth, leader, and trade.
