Fall Of Rome Dbq Analysis

The “Fall” of Rome is a huge mystery so anything could have happened to make one of the most powerful empires drop into ruins. But there are still many huge pieces of evidence to back us up for the critical events that made them feel defeat. First of all, the reasons why Rome was weakening was the economical problems. According to Document E it states, “...taxes were severe” In other words, this shows that the emperors taxed heavily to pay for their own personal uses like throwing festivals and paying huge amounts of money just for food or just paying for people they owe debt to. In addition it states in Document F, “The need to pay troops added to the demands on the state’s budget, just as declining production cut into tax revenues.” This shows that they had to pay their own soldiers to stay loyal to them even though they would have already been loyal before, now there just staying loyal for money but not even protecting them, maybe even sometimes the soldiers just go steal from the treasury room. …show more content…
It states, “[He] … considered his new life … better than his old life among the Romans” In Document C. I can infer that some roman citizens were more comfortable with the Huns invading Rome than that of being under the Roman Empire, this shows us the leaders were terrible at controlling their own government and this gave romans no freedom but now after the invasion they have a lot more freedom.. Also it says in Document B, “the customary armor began to seem heavy since the soldiers rarely ever wore it. Therefore, they first asked the emperor to set aside breastplates.” This shows that the emperor and senators actually did remove the breastplates and helmets which leaves the roman soldiers vulnerable to attacks, therefore the Huns invaded Rome with archers and easily got passed the roman defenses because they didn’t wear