Why Did The Barbarians End?

Rome is recognized as one of the strongest empires of its time; however, as history shows all great empires must eventually come to an end. The Roman Empire lasted from about 750 BC all the to 476 A.D when they are finally conquered. But if the Roman empire lasted that long, what caused it to come to an end? The Fall of Rome can be linked to various crisis’s ranging from poor leadership within the nation to massive inflation over the economy, it was their military conflict with the Germanic tribes and the plague of Cyprian that had the greater impact leading to their demise. The Romans underestimated the “danger, and the number of their enemies” they were in battles with, especially the Germanic tribes or the barbarians. The Barbarians were a warrior people and “pressed on the Roman empire with accumulated weight”; however, it was not because they were at war but for sport. Since fighting in the barbarian culture was something they did for fun, they would get in a lot of battles with the Romans to keep them entertained. This contributed to the fall of Rome because all the extensive military pressure from the barbarian would
The plague, or the disease, “ran a course of four months” and with the symptoms consisting of feeling feverish and bubonic swelling or swelling of one lower abdomen. Other symptoms varied from person to person “with some [having] a deep coma, [and] with others a violent delirium”. The disease, in its prime, was capable of causing up to about five thousand death in one day, taking a huge chunk of the Roman population. It is obvious that a decline in population of this magnitude would evidently lead to the down fall of a nation or