Many causes. Commodus followed Aurelius and the downturn was set. All in all, building a nation's wealth by pillaging and plundering ones neighbors isn't a strategy that will sustain, and benevolent dictators usually raise self-centered egotistical heirs.
yes.believe me. i am talking about the east Romanian Empire..it ruled parts of my country,and other Arabs country it was called the Byzantine Empire and the capital was Constantinople. until Islam came so it is now most of it asTurkey .
They bit off more then they could chew, any empire who expands at the rate of such will be bound to collapse at one point because their forces being too spread out and there is so much land to cover they cannot defend it all at once. However what a feat they did do
They expanded too fast eventually their borders were so large their forces were stretched thin if they had moved slower developing the areas they already had increasing their population then they could've kept expanding.
Collapse of infrastructure. No ways to feed or supply their vast empire or maintain the roads, aqueducts or communities they forged. Had all those been in order, they would've been ready once the Visigoths came over the 7th hill. Something that's happening to us as we type.
Roman expansion reached the point of diminishing returns, tribute from conquest came to an end, massive boarders needed protected at great expense, displaced workers drained the treasury, by the time Rome fell there was almost no silver in their currency.
Either that or it was Obama's fault.
i am talking about the east Romanian Empire..it ruled parts of my country,and other Arabs country it was called the Byzantine Empire and the capital was Constantinople.
until Islam came so it is now most of it asTurkey .
and i expected a picture of Obama!! Go figure - knew it was one of them, right?!?!?
HAHAHA
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Caught between the hammer and anvil of both external and internal conflict.
Sure, it's maybe a little more complicated than that, but to sum it up I think overall - they grew beyond their means. Greed.