Essay On Why The Roman Empire Fell

The actual Empire of Rome fell but there culture, inventions and beliefs are still here today. So what makes a empire ‘fall’ well if the Empire is not here today and people can't live there it is not still a empire and two if people can't trade or go to war with them today then it's not still an empire. The empire of Rome fell but all the beliefs and culture are still here today, such as laws they used like insolent till proven guilty and all rights alley to all people.There are also inventions still used today like aqueducts which is like our now pipe system and lots of other

The first reason the Roman Empire fell is because of their military. The Roman Empire's military was very weak. in their military they had soldiers known as merchants who were soldiers paid to fight. Since they got paid they were more loyal …show more content…
The Roman Empire's government was weak because people would not join the government and the the leading cause of death for rulers was assassination. the people would not join the government because one, you would not get paid which resulted in you not making enough money to support your family and two since the rulers got assassinated then you would not have taken the risk of being killed. since people would not join the government then there weren't a lot of people in the government and it could not make decisions that ran the empire. The leading cause of death for Roman emperors was assassinated, since most rulers were killed it made think people think that Rome's empire was violent and no one should join it and for the people that are in the empire it will make them think is okay to kill the empire if you didn't like him which is why rulers were assamite. As a rule when a empire that is trying to survive that doesn't have a stable government and has nobody that is even willing to join the government then they won't be able to make decisions that keep the Empire from