Niamh,Kelan,Clay

=The Fall of the Roman Empire =

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 The biggest reason why Rome fell was because of the Empire splitting into two. Diocletian divided Rome into two parts, he was on the strong and powerful side and he left the other side to fend for themselves. The reason why he did this was because the empire was to big to rule.The part that Diocletian was at, was not even in Rome it had other places along the Medditeranen. So the main capital was falling apart. =====

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Invaders from the North were coming down and attacking Rome on the outside. The reason why they were attacking is because they were mad at them, because they were so powerful. The Pax Romana was now coming to an end, Rome was now no longer the most important city any more. Rome's econemy started to fall.=====

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Rome was using to much money on the army,since the army was so big and they had to buy equipment they used alot of money. Their money cost less and less time went by. Items now costs more in Roman money because it was not worth anything. The trade was suffering and they were not trading as much as they were before.=====

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Rome was increasing the taxes because of how worthless money was on everything. The money was worthless because of how much money they made. They were going through money inflation. Also, the citizens were becoming so poor that the goverment was giving out free grain.=====

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Another reason why Rome was falling apart was because of its many slaves, they had so many because when they defeated new enemies then they took the citizens and used them as their slaves. They defeated so many other empires they did not know what to do with them. The slaves were doing all of the citizens jobs for free, so then the citizens were dying because they had no money since the slaves took their jobs.=====