that let down the Roman Empire rather than the conflict between contenders.
causes of RomeÊs economic demise are complex, if Roman citizens had been able to support the army, Rome might have been able to resist its enemies. But they could not support the army and the Germanic peoples started to seep into the Empire and remove the influence Rome had exerted across its Empire.
I therefore consider the Barbarian invasion coupled with RomeÊs economic demise and poor administrative decisions to be the most important causes for the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. Although the
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