A change over time

Some people will argue that the Roman empire thrived because of its large cities and merchant trading. However, in all actuallity most of its important citizens were small independent farmers spread throughout the countryside. As time went on and Roman aristocrats became greedier and power hungry, small farms joined to make large estates ran by slaves. Slaves became the backbone of the Roman economy. Many slaves came from war, some because they were abandoned, but all worked with litttle or no return. That is why there were vit

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This was all to bring about a more stable economy. This is where most historians agree the Golden Age ended for the Roman Empire. The first thing that was done was reassembling a large Roman army to reinforce Roman boundaries and push back the invading tribes. al, they produced vast amounts of agriculture while costing nothing. While many were either incompetent or insane during 100 AD to 250 AD it seemed that the government still ran itself without to many problems. One of those being a police force of some kind. But during the middle of the third century when neighboring tribes began to invade and the empire saw thirty emperors in a little less than fifty years with only two dying of natural causes(maybe poisoned), this was a thing of the past, meaning the empire was on the verge of collapsing. When Christianity was in its infant stage it seemed to be more fierce, to have more of an impact, but soon after Constantine embraced it it seemed to lose its passion. This changed when it was declared that any free person was a citizen to the empire, therefore broadening taxation to all. However, when wars started dwindling and disease started spreading, the number of slaves available began to decrease as well. However, Constantine instituted the biggest change in Roman history when he declared Christianity a legal religion and eventually embraced it completely by nameing Constantinople a strictly Christian city and later capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, which would permanently set a boundary between the East and the West. The next was to put things at a set price and actually enforce hereditary vocations. People would also build churches and other places of worship without government support. Even these workers slowly began to resemble semi-slaves. While this was a time of peace for many of the elites, many of the peasants were putting the law into their own hands and were defending themselves from internal violence.

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