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Theory

The Fall of Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome was an amazing empire until it fell. The ancient romans lives were perfect they had heated floors, a police force, fire men, they had a system of getting water into the cities. They had it all until the pax romana came to end while new groups moved through the empire. After the end of the pax romana outside invaders started to take over land. Thieves held up traders and pirates Hijacked ships. When trade started to suffer so did Rome with out trade there was less surplus with out surplus less food so that hurt them a lot. Too much slavery destroyed ancient Rome also it hurt them because the could not handle all their slaves. Then lots of people in Rome became poor it made every one hate rome and want to destroy it. By the time a man named Diocletion dicided rome was to large so he dicided to split Rome in to two parts. Diocletion gave the weak land to three generals and he took the part by western Asia the strong part of the Roman empire. Then Diocletion moved the capital in Asia and left rome for the invaders. The weather climate changed and so people in western Asia moved down to warmer climates in rome. Rome had amazing farm land so that people wanted to take over the fertile land. Everyone got taxed more because the have to fight of invaders. Everyone joined the army so they don't get taxed for fighting in the war. Inflexy happened so their money was worth nothing so they had to have lots of money to buy little. So they had to make more money which was not good because with to much money can cause their money system to fall which they needed to buy military equipment. sience all the citizens joine army to not pay tax this weakend them so they got taken over.