Question: What caused the fall of the Western Roman Empire? There were many reasons for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. Each document in this essay explains a different reason. Some causes were: political, economic, social, and military differences and problems. Basically, the problem was that the gap between the rich aristocrats and the poor serfs got bigger and bigger; the rich got richer as the poor got poorer. Also, when something grows, …
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…politically, economically, socially, and militarily. The upper class devoted themselves to luxury and weren't interested in caring about the ones below them, while the lower classes gave up devotion to their country's aristocrats and this gap between the two eventually broke up the empire, and chaos ruled over the region for many years after. This unstoppable event was necessary and there's no way that people could've kept on living the way they were any longer.