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The Roman Empire had to impose taxes due to how financially unstable they were. All the previous wars have drained their money and they can no longer pay for soldiers.

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Rome over expands and has trouble protecting all of their land. Because of how big the Roman empire is the emperor has trouble commanding and protecting all the land they have.

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The Roman Empire started hiring unloyal mercenaries. They started hiring barbarians who eventually end up turning on them. This was the biggest turning point during the Roman empire's fall because this what caused their demise.

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Christianity became the state religion for Rome. Although Christianity is good, it derived the importance of the emperor making them less powerful.

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Rome splits into two empires because of how hard it was for a single emperor to rule all of the land. But this turned out to be a bad idea as they started fighting and not communicating with each other.

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Rome was sacked by the Visigoths. The barbarians attacked Western rome and threatened the empire for several decades.

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The Western Roman empire comes to an end. The barbarians finally finish off the Western empire.

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After being under siege for two months, the Byzantine Empire falls to the Ottoman Empire.