The rich in their depravity turn to unnatural pleasures of the same sex. Before the fall of the great Republic of Rome, morals eroded and rich homosexuals found pleasure with young slave boys. I wonder if their lust was leading them to pedophilia.
Rome fell because of civil wars and mass migrations out of Asia.
Not butt *******.
Learn history and then post
SassyIrishChick does not know history at all.
You're such a fake, dude. Now sh
Learn history and then post
I'll gladly put my knowledge of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire against yours.
Shall we dance?
You're clueless, go dance with yourself
Laughing......nothing but excuses why you won't discuss Roman History?
Gee, how did I know that was coming?
Leading causes of the fall of the Roman Empire...
Germanic tribal invasions. The mistake of dividing the Empire into halves and the rise of the western Empire. Over expansion, government corruption and the watering down of the military.
Civil wars and mass migration? Pfffft...you're a moron
The Crisis of the Third Century was
a string of civil wars lasting about 50 years that radically weakened and transformed the Roman military machine.
As every casualty was a roman soldier. It gutted both the leadership and the footman core of the Roman military and forced them to rely heavily on foreign conscripts and mercenaries as auxiliaries. By the late empire there were often as many Goths in the Roman military auxillaries as there were in the armies they fought.
These auxiliaries were not standardized. They didn't use traditional roman military tactics, they didn't use the gladius, they didn't wear the banded metal armor of Republic and Early Empire Roman troops. They were largely a rabble. And they were the backbone of the Roman military in the late empire.
Worse, as military conquest was the standard method of passing power from one emperor to the next and usurpers were killing usurpers for the office of Emperor, more and more 'escort armies' were kept near the Emperor to defend him from other wannabes.
With these 'escorts' sometime comprising 1/10th of the entire Roman military and composed of the best troops.Almost all of the escort armies were core Roman troops, not foreign auxiliaries.
Meaning that the Roman military was robbed of both numbers and quality it could apply to the field by this practice.
And these troops were sorely needed. As at the same time the Germanic tribes were going ape shit with over a dozen major uprisings and key battles.
That's twice the number of conflicts in only 50 years than in the 200 years that preceded it.
There was relative stability for the span on a single Emperor's reign....a
nd then the Empire plunged back into civil war for another 20 years. With civil war greeting virtually every transition of power from one emperor until the collapse of the Empire.
But civil wars had nothing to do with it? There's virtually no historian alive even remotely familiar with the Roman empire that wouldn't place at least some blame for the Empire's collapse on these civil wars. With many citing it as a primary impetus of it.
And while the tribes that attacked Rome were Germanic, Sasanian, the Carpi and others, these groups were they were pushed into Roman territory by massive Asian migrations of the Huns, the Slavs, the Avars, the Bulgars and others. The Huns attacked the Visigoths long before they attacked the Romans. And it was this great migration out of Asia that spelled the death knell of the roman Empire.
According to who? According to the Romans:
"However, the seed and origin of all the ruin and various disasters that the wrath of Mars aroused ... we have found to be (the invasions of the Huns)"
Ammianus Marcellinus
You were saying, Sassy?