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=**__The Fall of Rome__**= = = = = =**__The Start of Rome__**= = Rome started with two brothers. Their names were Romulus and Remus. When they were babies their uncle took their mother to the temple of Mars the god of War and kept her there. Then one night Mars visited her and they had babies (Romulus and Remus). When their uncle heard of this he sent two of his men to kill them. They put them in a basket, and put them in the river. To their surprise the basket stayed afloat. When they landed on the shore a mother wolf found them and took them to her cave. When they grew up they were taken away by a man back to his wife. One day they went looking for their mother and found her. After she told them what had happened they killed their uncle. Then they started to plan out a city. They couldn’t decide on what to name their city. So they fought until Remus lye dead. Romulus ruled his new city called Rome until he died after he became a god. That is how Rome started. For more info visit: [|Romulus and Remus] = = ﻿ =

=__**Reasons that Rome Fell**__= =There were a lot of major causes why Rome fell down. One is that there was antagonism between the Senate and Emperor. The Roman emperor had the legal power to rule Rome’s religious, civil and military affairs with the Senate acting as an advisory body. The emperor had power over life and death. The powerful, spoilt, wealthy Roman Emperors inevitably became corrupt and many lived debauched, deluded and immoral lifestyle. The Roman Empire saw many examples of antagonism between the Senators and the Emperors .One of the major causes for the fall was because of the decline in Morals. The decline morals, especially in the rich upper classes, nobility and the emperors, had a devastating impact on the Romans. Emperors such as Tiberius kept groups of your boys for his pleasure, incest by Nero who also had a male slave castrated so he could take him as his wife. Elagabalus who forced a Vestal Virgin into marriage, Commodus with his harems of concubines enraged Romans by sitting in the theatre or at the games dressed in a woman’s garments. The decline in morals also effected the lower classes and slaves. Political Corruption also caused some major parts of the fall. The rapid growth in the lands conquered by the Empire led to the need to defend the borders and territories of Rome. The people of the conquered lands, most of whom were referred to as Barbarians, hated the Romans. Other causes were because of the fast expansion of the empire, constant wars and heavy military spending, Barebarian knowledge og Roman military tavtivs, failing economy, unemployment of the working classes (the Plebs), the ‘Mob’ and the cost of the ‘games, decline in Ethics and values, slave labor, natural disasters, Christianity, and Barbarian invasion. = = The decline of Rome is one of the traditionally events marked at the end of Classical Antiquity and the beginning of the European Middle Ages. Throughout the 5th century, the Empire’s territories in Western Europe and northwest Africa, including Italy, fell to various invading peoples in what sometimes called the Migration period.The Roman Empire emerged from the Roman Republic when Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar transformed it from a republic into a monarchy. Rome reached the max of its power the 2nd century. After it reached the hight of its power the ruler made a decison that would change Rome. He divided it into two equal halves under two rulers. They were the Eastern Half and the Western Half. The Eastern Half's capitol was Constantinople, while the Western's capitol remained Rome. Those are some ways Rome also fell. = =Some people say the split into an eastern and western empire governed by separate emperors caused Rome to fall. The eastern half became the Byzantime Empire, with its capital at Constantinople (modern Istanbul). The western half remained centered in Italy. Many say the Fall of Rome was an ongoing process, lasting more than a **century. Since Rome still exists, it is argued that it never //fell//. Some prefer to say that Rome //adapted// instead of falling. A related question, one subject to even more discussion is. Many people wonder if the fall of Rom was a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come. They also want to know if there was any crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into the Roman culture, an essentially positive transformation. An historian called Bryan Ward-Perkins argues that the “peaceful” theory of Rome’s “transformation” is badly in error. In his opinion, the fall of Rome was a time of horror and dislocation that destroyed a great civilization, throwing the inhabitants of the West back to a standard of living typical of prehistoric times. Attacking contemporary theories with relish and making use of modern archaeological evidence, he looks at both the wider explanations for the disintegration of the Roman world and also consequences for the lives everyday Romans, who were caught in a world of marauding barbarians, and economic collapse. The book recaptures the drama and violence of the last days of the Roman world, and reminds us of the very real terrors of barbarian occupation. Equally important, Ward-Perkins contends that a key problem with the new way of looking at the end of the ancient world is that all difficulty and awkwardness is smoothed out into a steady and positive transformation of society. For more reasons click on: [|Why Rome Fell] ** = = = =**__Conclusion__**= =Those are some of the reasons Rome fell. We have not even listed all of them. There are so many possible ideas on how Rome started to fall. I think we have only scraped the surface of this large mystery. Our favorite of them all is when Diocletian divided Rome into two. This is, because Rome became weaker and weaker every moment while its foes were at large. So, those are some ways the Roman Empire fell. = = = 