Roman Military Factors

The fall of Rome was led by military, political, social, and economic factors over a long period of time. Military factors consists of the Germanic invasions, and decreasing Roman legions which lead to idea of mercenaries that only cared about money moreover Roman values. The Huns were migrating from central Asia to Eastern Europe, and ejected the Germanic peoples. The Visigoths, Ostrogoths, and other Germanic people invaded Roman territory seeking safety, but the legions couldn't push them back and slowly gave up parts of the Roman empire. The former powerful legions of the Roman Empire were now undisciplined and lacked proper conditioning that the earlier republic soldiers had. The government would hire mercenaries to fill the demand. The
Factors consists of the depravity of pioneer, republic values , the patricians devoted to affluence and not to duty, the common people loss of self-reliance, and Christianity During the Roman republic, the Romans followed certain values like fealty to authority, justice and fairness to all who obey, and diligence to succeed. After the nation turned into an empire, many of those values declined. Violence and crime spread throughout the cities, and the elite would throw lavish parties and watch gladiatorial games with lots of bloodshed. This created a society where the wealthy felt ‘entitled’ to what they had, the common folk not being educated and dependent on public welfare, and overall a nation that did not reflect on the traditional values of Rome. Christianity also played a role in the downgrade. As Christianity spreads, people felt more incline to follow religion than the government. Soon the citizens would concentrate on personal salvation than the well-being of the
Legislative aspects include the authoritative government of the time, officials are unethical, dividing the empire further weakens the nation, and after the divide the East does little for the West. Political stability was nowhere to found as corrupted officials or ambitious generals would use their troops to overthrow or assassinated the emperor. To show how ambiguous Rome was, in a fifty year period at least 26 emperors reign and only one died naturally. Political rot spread towards the senate as they also failed to place checks on power in their own depravity of duty. Collectively, as this became the new norm, Romans lost faith their government, and had no say within the chaos to change anything about the bureaucratic problems. Over-expansion made controlling and systematization impossible, so therefore Diocletian divided the empire to operate the territory better. Improvements came but it brought a bigger problem, the East did little for the West when problems arise. The two failed to collaborate on the Germanic invaders, while the East flourish the West was in an economic crisis, and finally Constantinople in the East was well fortified but Rome in the West - which only had sentimental and symbolic value - was left vulnerable to