Due to that it made Rome a very easy target to take over. “The end of [an] empire is always messy, and Roman Britain was no exception. No clear decision to ‘decolonize’ Britain was made. Instead the garrison was run down over a generation, and then remnant was simply cast adrift to fend for itself” (The Fall). The fall of Rome was inevitable, Rome was after all past its Golden Age, the Romans themselves were also too relaxed and were not savages they were back then conquering country after country; the Romans were now domesticated no longer the savages they once were. Which in return made them weak and vulnerable against the savages they had to face after the Romans came back to defend their …show more content…
“By approving Christianity, the Roman state directly undermined its religious traditions. Finally, by this time, Romans considered their emperor a god. But the Christians belief in one god-who was not the emperor weakened the authority and credibility of the emperor” (The Fall of the Roman Emperor). Since Christianity only worshipped one god, the once adherent pagans who had once worshipped numerous gods quickly converted to Catholicism and started to fully believe in the faith. An additional problem leading up to their fall was that over the years leading up to the fall there were impractical political amateurs that were leading