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The Western Roman Empire fell in 476 AD, marking the end of classical antiquity and the beginning of the Middle Ages. Various factors contributed to the collapse including economic troubles, military defeats, political chaos, social upheaval, and external invasions. As a review, discuss with your table partner and answer how each factor played a role in this monumental historical event.

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The Concentration of wealth in the eastern Roman empire

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The Concentration of wealth in the eastern Roman empire

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This meant that the western empire had less financial power and couldn't pay their soldiers.

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When you have a huge amount of emperors that last for a few years or even months, policies aren't maintained. Many people were divided over which person to take orders from, which prevents an organized and efficient empire.

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This contributed to the fall of the Western empire because it did not have the proper government to sustain it.

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This contributed to the fall of the Western empire because it did not have the proper government to sustain it.

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Rome was spread out into multiple areas and some of the areas were weaker than the other areas.

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A lot of the money left the western Roman empire therefore much military left as well. This left The Western Roman Empire with less defense and vulnerable to the Goths and other Germanic tribes. Eventually, these tribes overtook Western Rome.

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The empire would experience more than 20 emperors in 50 years. This made the government weak so it could not sustain it

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they had a civil war between the western empire and the eastern empire.

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The military was fighting without armor

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As the Germanic tribes invaded the empire had to defend themselves and use the military to defend rather than conquering other places.

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in 50 years there were 20 emperors

A lot of emperors were greedy

Split up empire so civil wars were more likely

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they had a lot of emporors in a small amount of time which creates political instability

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The military did not have enough resources to defend the empire weakening it allowing other invasions to suceed.

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There weren't enough people to fight in the army so the empire had to hire mercenaries, which are soldiers that are paid to fight. The mercenaries weren't loyal to Rome, they were loyal to the money, so the army was very weak.

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There were more than 20 Emporers in 50 years, making the citizens of Rome not as confidant. When Constantine came to stabilize it and he sided with eastern Rome leading to the creation of The Byzantine Empire. This Left the Roman Western Empire in a spiral of Chaos.

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There were 20 emperors in 50 years which means that people could not stay and there was instibility

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the Roman empore fought a lot of wars which made it very weak.

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They had to fight with no armor. Also they din't have enough people to fight so they had to ask others.

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Constantine fought many battles against other Romans, and Cival wars always weakened the economy and since Constantine won against the Western empire it was weaker than ever.

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While the church and industry resided in Turkey, Greece, and the Middle East, the state continued to rule from Italy, requiring that Roman forces be stretched to defend the whole of the empire, instead of being able to concentrate on certain points. In addition, the soldiers themselves were becoming less devoted to their cause, becoming easier to beat by their enemies in addition to taking money out of the treasury.

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The empire had to hire mercenaries since there were not enough soldiers. These mercenaries were not loyal to the empire but to money instead

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When an empire has many emperors that don't last very long, many people get imprisoned, which is not efficient at all and the population and popularity would get less and less.

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They overthrew the West.

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the military was slit in two so the army can fight. mercenary was working in military and he did not have loyalty to the empier so the army got weeker.

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The Western Roman Empire Had fewer materials to trade with for money which meant that since they couldn't get money from the Eastern Roman Empire anymore they where left with less money power and military defense. Also, since the capitol was Moved to Constantinople, many people living in Rome moved. (the money)

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They were surrounded by a lot of tribes and empires that wanted their land.