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=__The Fall of the Roman Empire__=

Rome was a huge empire but nothing will last forever. Our group will list the many other reasons why Rome went into decline and fell to the ground.
===One of the major reasons why Rome was thought to fall was that the emperor Diocletian split the massive empire into two parts. Those parts were West Rome and East Rome. West Rome consisted of Italy, Gaul, Spain, and Britian. East Rome had Greece, Egypt, and Judea. The new east part of Rome was called the Byzentine Empire after the Greek city Byzentine. While East Rome thrived for a very short time, West Rome was falling to the ground. The Vandals and Barbarians were attacking West Rome and destroying it. It was thought that the change of climate in siberia where many tribes lived were forced out and finally made it to the borders of the Roman Empire and started small border wars. This is just one of the major reasons why rome dissapeared from the face of the earth for a long time.=== ===﻿ Another reason that Rome fell was the major new religion and new religion of East Rome, Christianity. Once it was introduced to Rome many of the poor people got interested in it and I'll tell you, there were a ton of poor people in Rome. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Christans became hard to control so the empire couldn't protect themselves from the attacks by Barbarians. Also, the Christians were supposed to worship the emperor but they never did it. The Romans didn't enjoy the Christans worshiping another go and not the emperor so the Romans had mass killings of the Christians. This was bad because almost all poor people were Christan so the Romans were killing half of there population. My last reason that Christianity destroyed was because that all th money usd to build new churches and to maintain them, could have been usd to help keep the Roman Empire strong.===

===A reason that th empire fell was that the high amounts of people being unemployment. Most farming was don on huge estates and the workers were the slaves. Since it was easier to use slaves, rather than poor workers, the patricians only used slaves to do the tough work. This lead to huge unemployment of poor citizens. It is thought that the poor citizens might have sold themselves into slavery just for a small meal. They were that desperate for food and a home. This is why slavery was one of the major reason that Rome fell.===  Christans being fed to starved lions

===**Another reason why Rome fell was because After Theodius died in 395 ad he left the Roman empire to his two sons Honorius and Arcudius. Honorius took the West and Arcudius took the East. Neither of them knew how to rule an empire. Majority of the work was done for Honorius by a Vandal named Stilicho. But it really didn't take a long time until the Germans and the Goths that the emporers had know clue how to rule. That made them attack but the Roman generals had notice it to and revolted againist them. After this incedent Constatine III a gerneral from england had decided to declare himself emporer of York. He took the Roman troops out of England to march his army through france but while he was doing so he left the border open which aloud a lot of Alans, Vandals, Sueves to cross the border. There were no soldiers to protect the land so this aloud them to settle on parts of the Roman empire.**===

===﻿The last major thing that Rome suffered from was inflation (the increased prices.) Once the Roman stoped conquering new lands, the flow of the Roman gold was starting to stop the economy. All of the money was used to pay for luxury items for the rich people. This meant that there was less gold coins to use. As the amount of gold coins in cuculation decreased the price of coins decreased. Then the merchants raised the prices of everything. No one could by anything except the rich. This is why the increased prices of everything led to the downfall of Rome.===

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