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Essay on The fall and Decay of Ancient Rome
The decay of Rome was inevitable. It's not entirely arbitrary that ancient history begins and ends in A.D. 476. The date A.D 476 date for the fall of Rome is conventionally acceptable because that's when the Germanic Odoacer deposed the last emperor ruling from Rome. There are, however, other reasonable dates for the fall of the Roman Empire. Some say Rome fell when it was split in two. Many say the fall was an ongoing process lasting more than a century. Since Rome still exists it could even be argued it never fell. A related question, one subject to even more discussion is: Why did Rome Fall?
There are some adherents to single factors, but more people think Rome fell because of a combination of such factors as Christianity, decadence, lead, monetary, and military problems. Even the rise of Islam is proposed by some who think the Fall of Rome happened at Constantinople. The following List of theories about the Fall of Rome is limited but these are some of the major prominent ones: Decay, Financial Problems, The Dole and Barbarians, Economic, Military, Gradual, Christianity, Vandals and Religious Controversy, Division of the Empire, Lead and Hoarding and Deficit.
Instead of inquiring why the Roman Empire was destroyed, it is surprising that it subsisted so long. One of the reasons for the success of the Roman Empire was that the Romans treated their Empire as the world. In other words, the world was equated with the Empire. This belief formed the social cement which kept the Empire sustained.
However, this bond, this social cohesion, was temporary at best. There were, after all, forces outside the Roman Empire which were eating away at the Empire itself. And regardless of whether we accept the fact that Rome fell as a result of internal pressure or invasions from the outside, or both at one and the same time.......
