Darianne,+Justin,+and+Moses

In the beginnig of the eight century B.C. an ancient civilization called Rome grew from a small town near Italy's Tiber river into a republic, then to a successful empire. It took over most of continental Europe, Britain, most of western Asia, northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands. The Romans had and still have a religon called Roman catholicism it origined from christianity. After 450 years as a republic, Rome became an empire in the wake of Julius Caesar's rise and fall in the first century B.C. And then came an emperor who's name was Augustus, he began a golden age of peace, and prosperity. Then the empires fall and decline happened by the fifth century A.D. This was one of the most dramatic implosions in the history of human civilization. []
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The fall of the Roman Empire was believed to have fallen by the lead. Lead was valuable in those days. It was used for everything even wine. The Romans discovered that wine tastes better if it is with sapa. The best sapa was boiled in lead pots allowing lead to leech into the syrup. When sapa was mixed with wine it sweetened and also poisoned the microorganisms that caused fermentation and souring. Josef Eisenger estimated a roman consuming a liter of wine a day would ingest about 20mg of lead a day could induce lead poisoning. That seems like a lot of wine. We got our information here. []

There are many reasons Rome may have fell. All are uncertain but, one good reason may be that the Roman Empire was to big to be ruled by one emperor. Thus, the empire was split into two halves. They thought it would be better to control and easier to rule. Instead, the empire’s halves were nothing alike. The western half was Latin and the eastern half was Greek. In the Eastern half their population was greater so, they survived the barbarian invasion. http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/fallofrome/a/Dorrington.htm []
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__** Reason 3 **__ Ancient Rome may have also fallen because of printing more money so, it lost value. The Rich became poor and the poor became poorer. They could barely afford food for themselves and most families even sold themselves to slavery. They thought, at least we would be given a meal, maybe two each day. At this time the army and the government became bigger because the poor joined. []

**__ Conclusion __** We learned many reasons about why Rome fell. It was too big, transportation was unsafe, communication was very difficult, and the census was harder to do because the empire was so big. They also couldn’t collect taxes from people, so they split the empire in half. There was an eastern side and a western side, which both had different emperors. There were also many deaths due to lead poisoning. America can learn not to do the same mistakes that the Roman Empire made.