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Why Did Rome Fall?

by severusdd on 5/29/25, 2:59 PM with 2 comments

• by PaulHoule on 5/29/25, 3:03 PM

  The remarkable thing is that the rise and fall took a very long time so you can't point to a particular moment of the fall.

• by bell-cot on 5/29/25, 3:15 PM

  > The only predictable parts of life, for the most accomplished court poet of Italy in the fifth century AD, were corruption, a lack of accountability, and a collapse of the constitutional willpower needed to solve large-scale problems [...]

  This, and worse - Rome very obviously rotted from within.

  The article fails to even mention the most obvious symptoms - Rome's civil wars, revolts, rebellions, ...

  Vs. the long, long list in reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_civil_wars