Fall of the Roman Empire

But when the provinces became more and more independent, they cut out the middleman all together. The patricians weren’t the only people to blame. So in that action the provinces were taking one of Rome’s largest sources of income. This happened in 476AD As you can see there were many causes for the fall of Rome. They eventually came to the point where countries just gave themselves up for fear of losing their all the people and things that were in these countries. Roman’s earlier Roman’s were known for being fierce fighters and they never let an opponent go with out conquering them. The wealthy people, or the patricians, made up an extremely small percentage of while the almost the rest were the Roman’s that were almost beyond poor and lived in poverty due to the taxes. The provinces were told what to produce, and they produced it, sold it to Rome, who would then sell it to the other provinces for a higher price. The rest of the emperors didn’t help the empire, but they hurt it. But you always wonder what the Romans could have done if they lasted longer. There had always been a very clear dividing line between the classes of people in Rome. But, when the Pax Romana ended they hadn’t fought in200 hundred years. The next reason for the decline of Rome was that the people neighboring Rome like Germany and Persia grew increasingly hostile toward the Romans. They also had to be paid which cut down more of the economy.