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=__//**The Great Decline of the Roman Empire**//__= There are many diffrent reasons for why Rome had its great decline. These are just a few of the reasons there are out there but these are the ones we've found. So read on and at the end you can decide what you think the reason for Romes great fall.

I found this picture at [|here] Rome was a great empire. It influenced what is America today. Back in about 79 B.C., the Roman Empire was even greater than it is now. It spread from the Indus Valley in china all the way passed the Mediterranean Sea. Everything was perfect then it collapsed. Nobody knows exactly how, but there are some explanations that may fit together to make the whole picture. One reason Rome might have collapsed is because of their water pipes being made out of lead, and so the Romans got led poisoning. Another reason may be because of the wars and attacks of the other empires coming in from the south because it was too cold. So when the other people from the south came, they pushed the people who were already living there in to the Roman Empire.

The reason of the fall of Rome may have been caused by a Barbarian general named Odoacer. It is said that this barbarian over through the Emperor of the Western Empire of Rome. Some people even think that the cause of the fall of the Roman empire was because of the invention of christianity, because more christians were turning romans into pacifists, so that made it alot harder to pertect the roman border for the barbarians. I got this information on phargraph #1 on this [|page]. picture from google.images. People ran out of jobs so they joined the military. As the military got big, there was no more money to pay them because everybody was in the military except the poor people who didn’t have any money to pay the military. So basically people were really poor. Trade was disrupted due to the wars and lack of defense protection. The empire was split into two and they both had different religions. Also, most importantly the dictator at the time was killed so nobody knew what to do. People went crazy until a man named Diocletian came and took over the Roman Empire and Rome was finally at ease. I found this picture at www. [|teachers.saschina.org]

So our conclusion about this wiki is that there are alot of reasons that the Roman Empire fell, and each one of those reasons might have all been the reason for the fall. But mabye there is still a reason that we have not found that could have just made the empire collapes by its self.