Roman Empire Social Problems

Another major cause of the fall of the Roman Empire involves the social problems that they had encountered. As a majority of the Roman citizens were excluded from political responsibilities, such as serving as a part of the Empire’s army , many were hopeless and left in thoughts that the old civilization had no reason to be saved. This idea was presented largely in a document incorporating an excerpt from the textbook, The Course of Civilization, by Strayer, Gatzke, and Harbison, as it blames these inhabitants’ thoughts for the fall of the Empire. Strayer writes, “The basic trouble was that very few inhabitants of the empire believed that the old civilization was worth saving…”. In these words, it is shown that due to the Empire’s inhabitants’