Introduction
For many years Romans fought with their neighbors and expanded their territory until they founded a huge empire which covered much of today’s Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Roman territory grew but this was not a pattern that could continue forever. At one point, newly occupied territories became unprofitable, to the point of not even being able to pay expenses of expeditions. This led to the Roman Empire to stagnate and both outside and inside pressures pulled the empire apart, culminating in 476 C.E. with the final collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The purpose of this essay is to research military, economic, and political factors from the third-century disaster to the fall of the Western Empire. My investigation …show more content…
Roman …show more content…
Conclusion and Comparison
The great Empire of Rome, the greatest power to ever rule the Mediterranean had fallen. It was unthinkable. Their faults in politics, economics and other things contributed to their fall. There was no one single cause; it was many things happening at once, which caused the fall of Rome. The leaders of today should look at Rome’s mistakes and be sure not to make the same ones again.
The current situation in the United States falls into this very same pattern. The deployment of large numbers of troops in both Afghanistan and Iraq has placed an enormous financial burden on an already damaged American economy. The cost of these wars for every household in the United States is approximately $100 per month. Unless a solution is found quickly, the pressures of an overextended military fighting costly wars, combined with the ever-increasing national debt, could destroy the United States, just as similar economic and military issues brought down the Western Roman
For many years Romans fought with their neighbors and expanded their territory until they founded a huge empire which covered much of today’s Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
Roman territory grew but this was not a pattern that could continue forever. At one point, newly occupied territories became unprofitable, to the point of not even being able to pay expenses of expeditions. This led to the Roman Empire to stagnate and both outside and inside pressures pulled the empire apart, culminating in 476 C.E. with the final collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The purpose of this essay is to research military, economic, and political factors from the third-century disaster to the fall of the Western Empire. My investigation …show more content…
Roman …show more content…
Conclusion and Comparison
The great Empire of Rome, the greatest power to ever rule the Mediterranean had fallen. It was unthinkable. Their faults in politics, economics and other things contributed to their fall. There was no one single cause; it was many things happening at once, which caused the fall of Rome. The leaders of today should look at Rome’s mistakes and be sure not to make the same ones again.
The current situation in the United States falls into this very same pattern. The deployment of large numbers of troops in both Afghanistan and Iraq has placed an enormous financial burden on an already damaged American economy. The cost of these wars for every household in the United States is approximately $100 per month. Unless a solution is found quickly, the pressures of an overextended military fighting costly wars, combined with the ever-increasing national debt, could destroy the United States, just as similar economic and military issues brought down the Western Roman