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The Roman Empire failed due to more than the crisis of the economy it was also because of invasions and the military. The Roman military never had a problem fighting off “barbarians” only until “Series of mass invasions by wave after wave of German tribes entered Rome” (Document # one). Most of the land belonging to the Roman Empire was taken over by the Germans. They gradually conquered sections of the empire at a time. Was “the city which took captive the whole world been itself captured?” (Document # three). The document also states the Roman armies were defeated by the invaders because they could not organize to protect themselves from the overwhelming amounts of trespassers. “Romans could not serve in the army even if they desired too”. The whole army was now composed of Germans (Document # two). As the population began to thin out the Huns and the Visigoths from Germany were able to invade all the way to Rome and sack the city much easier. These are a few more reasons adding onto the failure of the Roman Empire. The Romans were one of the greatest peoples of all. They had power, wealth, and even a half of the world. They built one of the strongest and vast empire that world has ever seen. They came from nothing to something awesome. It started of as a city, ended up being one of the greatest empires of all and soon crumbled to nothing. In conclusion, the Empire declined based upon the same ideas that had caused it to flourish. It fell because the social, economic, political, and military were no longer workable. The Roman Empire came gradually and fell
