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= **__THE ROMAN DECLINE__** = ==** These are some reasons for Rome’s decline. Pirates raided ships and controlled the waters, then when all hope was lost, barbarians started attacking villages, pushing the Romans back, thieves started to make their move. After that affected trade and made Rome even weaker and finally they cracked. After that the barb arians attacked from the east to find a civilization. Rome was attacked on its thousandth year birthday. Before the attack Rome was having a celebration of gladiator fights and parties. Then they were attacked and they lost. The Eastern part of Rome was to live on for another 1000 years. **==

==Another reason was Diocletian split the country into to main parts western and eastern. Diocletian decreased the power of Rome by doing that. He slit the empire, because he thought Rome was to powerful to be ruled by one. Then in 306 A.D another emperor named Constantine changed the capital to Constantinople. This really decreased the power in western Rome. There was so much decreased so much western Rome got attacked and taken over by Northern Europeans.==



== There were to many slaves in ancient Rome. There were so many regular people couldn’t get a job, because why pay a Roman Citizen money when you could get a slave to do it for free. There were so many slaves, that there were more slaves than citizens. Rome conquered a lot of lands and when ever they did they made who ever lived there slaves. There were children slaves too. The slave problem made a lot of unemployed citizens and the government had to pay for there food and the government had no way to tax these unemployed citizens. This made Rome poor and it was another reason why Rome declined. ==

==In the army discipline was legendary and according to historians it was very severe. In this case there was a very strict system. Intelligent soldiers who worked together as a unit no doubt posed a significantly greater threat to an enemy, than blindly obedient men who only did what they were told. During times of crisis such as the war against== Hannibal severe measures were most likely necessary to maintain army discipline against a seemingly invincible opponent.

 

==Taxes were a big problem in ancient Rome. The Roman government couldnt tax poor people because they had no money to pay taxes with. The poor people couldnt pay taxes, because the slaves took up all the jobs in ancient Rome. The Roman government could not just tax anyone, because they would have no money for the army. The tax problem weakened Rome it made Rome poor and the army became weak. The Roman government tried to fix this by taxing the rich and that still didnt work.==

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