The Fall Of Rome

The Fall of the Roman Empire In the time during which Rome was a prominently known empire, it was constantly changing and not much stayed the same way for a very long period of time. Emperors were changing periodically and with each new one, new ideas would be brought in, which the people of Rome sometimes liked and sometimes disliked 1(http://gandhibliss.tripod.com/romanfall/rome.html). The economy would change with the government and …

…more barbaric invasions. The defenses were sparse because of the large amount of land, which needed defense 5(http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cjv14n2-7.html). These invasions hurt the economy and by 476 AD, had totally destroyed the old Roman Empire in the West. The negative changes in society, the economy, and the government all led to the fall of the Roman Empire 6(http://www.republic.k12.mo.us/highschool/teachers/tstephen/romemp-7.htm).