These barbaric invasions wreaked havoc on the empire, draining away all its wealth and power. Some groups that invaded Rome causing it to fall were the Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Angles, and Saxons. This is coming from a map showing varied arrows moving to and from cities, from “Invasions of the Roman empire” by Nihad Harnzicis licensed under CC-BY-SA. Three arrows are pointing towards Rome, which indicate the enemies that have invaded the area. The Roman Empire would have been able to protect itself, but it was too large and it had unloyal soldiers like what was talked about earlier. In conclusion, other problems adding up led to these invasions causing the fall of …show more content…
This may be partly true, but not fully, because if Rome had more loyal soldiers, it would have been easier to protect itself, and the citizens would’ve lived longer. According to Doc 1: http://www.usu.edu/, “So did plagues, no doubt, as well as constant warfare on the frontiers.”. As you can see, this quote is telling us that warfare also caused the fall of Rome along with other things, and if their military was more loyal, Rome would have been safer. In short, the wealthy refusing to create kin may have been part of why Rome fell, but it is so meager compared to every other problem Rome faced that it is