Roman Empire Problems

Although the Roman Empire was the greatest at it’s time, it did come to a fall. When it fell, the architecture, the culture, the stories were all lost for thousands of years. There were many contributors to the fall of the empire, but these four were the most critical: Political problems, economic issues, disastrous diseases, and finally, foreign invaders.
The Western Roman Empire had political problems, this was the start of the fall of the empire. The first problem was the unfit emperors. For example, Nero, Nero was a greedy emperor who burned down Roman land so he could build his own palace. Nero inherited the throne because there were not any vice emperors at the time. In fact, there were 37 emperors and most of them were assassinated by their own Praetorian Guards. This would lead to Roman legions fighting against other Roman legions. They would do this to decide who would become the next emperor. Political problems were only the beginning of the fall of the Western Roman Empire, later came economic issues, Disease and foreign invaders. After the political problems came economic issues, this was a
A problem that led to the fall of the empire was the size of it. Maintaining the Western Roman Empire became an issue because of the size. Also, Roman legions became weak because they were not focused on protecting their country, They were only concerned about their salaries and who owns the throne. They had no way to protect their natural borders. As a result, the Romans had to hire Germanic mercenaries. This was a problem because the Western Roman Empire was in a battle with Germanic tribes. Consequently, The mercenaries turned against the Romans. Similarly, the Germans broke the aqueducts making it hard for Romans to get water. Additionally, the Rhine and Danube river would freeze and anyone could walk into the country. Lastly, in 410 CE, Chief Alaric destroyed and burned the Roman