Historians believe there are many factors to this collapse many being internal factors and the other being external factors such as the effect barbarian invasions in the Western Roman empire. To better understand the topic, the causes of Western Rome’s fall were highly analyzed in this document presented today. Here will be discussed the four main claims as to why Rome fell and will show just how much the barbarian invasions influenced Rome’s fall.Many may argue that the the ones to blame for Western Rome's fall are the barbarians however that is not the complete reason for there fall,it is that the Western Roman empire fell because they were not a well structured government and with the push of one event they were bound to …show more content…
This research paper explained well enough the ways in which Rome’s fall was a “domino effect” with its dominos being barbarians and its internal factors. There were several reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire, each one interwoven with the other. It was a trigger of events in which one thing led to another and Rome's lack of structure led to its end. If you look at great human civilizations, like that of the Roman Empire you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse. This took examination of other viewpoints of how Rome fell and saw through the barbarian viewpoint.The Western Roman empire fell because they were not a well structured government and with the push of one event they