The_Fall_Of_Civilization,_Roman

The Fall Of Civilization, Roman The fall of Civilization, Roman One of the most important reasons for the fall of Rome was the economy. There were many economic problems in Rome. I’ll first start with the prisoners of war or the lack there of. When Emperor Hadrian drew the boundaries and said Rome could grow no more in 121 AD, the empire lost one of the three largest sources of income, prisoners of war. Another major source of income was trade. Rome acted like the middleman in trade between the provinces. The provinces were told what to produce, and they produced it, sold it to Rome, who would then sell it to the other provinces for a higher price. But when the provinces became more and more independent, they cut out the middleman all together. So in that action the provinces were taking one of Rome’s largest sources of income. The third economic source for Rome was taxes. As the two other sources of income began to disappear, the Rome government raised the taxes for the people of Rome. The taxes skyrocketed and the plebeians, Rome’s everyday average poor people who made up almost all of Rome, started to revolt. The next reason for the decline of rome, people, taxes, poor, empire, provinces, decline, wealthy, rome’s, patricians, made, income, emperors, emperor, things, themselves, taking, sources, roman’s, roman, reason, problems, out, one, grew, government, good, economic, earlier, didn’t, between, became, almost, after, another, years