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Christianity’s control grew greatly and rapidly and this minimized the power of the empire. The church leader’s power increased while the Roman Empire’s power decreased. “Over time, Church leaders became influential and took away power from the emperor.” (Google.com) Some of the Christian’s beliefs and ways of life conflicted with the laws of the empire and the people chose Christian laws over the Empire’s laws. This contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire. Military problems were a major source of the fall of the Roman Empire. First of all, the army was made up of unmotivated soldiers. They were much less efficient than the superior soldiers that Rome had in the past, who had passion and pride for the army. This made it much more difficult to win battles. Rome lost their control over the military situations. In addition, Rome didn’t have new enlistments joining the army. Most people were too lazy to help fight and hired their slaves to do it for them. This was illegal but they found loopholes. The slaves that fought did not have the passion and desire to win. They didn’t care about the development of Rome because no matter what they did, they would be servants to it anyway. If you are not fighting to win, then what are you fighting
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Usually, during a time like this, people would spend their gold, so it would circulate. But all the gold owners would hide their gold, and not spend it. This caused there to be no real money in the system. "One of the primary catalysts to the deterioration of the economy was the lack of circulating currency in the Western Empire.” (Google.com) The government would also spend a lot of money on unnecessary luxuries, which they borrowed money to get. This caused the debt of the country to increase.
Another problem was feudalism. Rome was in a system that the land was given out to the people below you. Those people would give out a smaller portion to the people below them, and so on. The people of Rome were divided into classes, and whatever class you were in, you stayed in. In a strong non-feudal society, motivated workers are essential. Therefore, citizen’s ranks are always accommodating to how hard they work. But in a feudalistic system, ones rank will never be changed; therefore, there is no motivation to encourage the workers to perform
Usually, during a time like this, people would spend their gold, so it would circulate. But all the gold owners would hide their gold, and not spend it. This caused there to be no real money in the system. "One of the primary catalysts to the deterioration of the economy was the lack of circulating currency in the Western Empire.” (Google.com) The government would also spend a lot of money on unnecessary luxuries, which they borrowed money to get. This caused the debt of the country to increase.
Another problem was feudalism. Rome was in a system that the land was given out to the people below you. Those people would give out a smaller portion to the people below them, and so on. The people of Rome were divided into classes, and whatever class you were in, you stayed in. In a strong non-feudal society, motivated workers are essential. Therefore, citizen’s ranks are always accommodating to how hard they work. But in a feudalistic system, ones rank will never be changed; therefore, there is no motivation to encourage the workers to perform