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Germanic Tribes Roman Empire
1,074 wordsThe Roman Empire geographically established the original concept of a European boundary. With all of it's great achievements like civil law, politics and literature, the collective willpower of the Roman Empire would eventually degrade over time and give way to new ideas and influences. The empire of Rome did not fall- it fizzled. The Western Roman Empire gave way to the Middle Ages around 476, when the Barbarian, , Odoacer, overthrew the emperor Romulus Augustulus. Other historians give the yea...
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One Of The Greatest Julius Caesar
598 wordster> Essay: Why was it possible for Rome to become an empire and last so long. What were the reasons for its fall? Rome was one of the greatest empires of the ancient world. The early Roman state was founded in 509 B. C. after the Romans drove out the hated Etruscan king. By this time Rome had already grown from a cluster of small villages to a small city. Little did the settlers know that this was the beginning of one of the greatest and largest empires ever known. After Rome establis...
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The Fall Of Roman Empire
1,670 wordsMany different historians, teachers, philosophers, archeologists and ordinary people have talked about, and brought up ideas and hypotheses about how this glorious Empire fell. This civilization and their way of life is, in some historians' opinions, the most prosperous and content time in human history. Many writers differ not only in their style, but also in how they view and interpret the events of history. One of the greatest historians of the eight-tenth century, Edward Gibbons, wrote that ...
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Germanic Tribes Roman Empire
900 wordsRome was not built in a day, nor did it fall in a day. Many factors contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. The most important factors were that the cities consumed without producing and that disease ravaged the Roman world. The Roman cities never became commercial cities like the cities of the Greek Empire. After the Punic Wars, the plebeian farmers flocked to the cities looking for food. Their farms had been demolished and there was no food left for them and their families to eat. Rome ga...
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Early Middle Ages Fall Of The Roman Empire
1,562 wordsDuring its golden age, the sprawling metropolis of Rome was decorated with dozens of beautiful arches veneered with the finest marble and ordained with ivory statues of the gods. Citizens of Rome were entertained by literally thousands of fountains and bathes supplied with scores of aqueducts (Hadas 37). The city became a cosmopolitan metropolis that reached a peak population of between six hundred- thousand and one million people. All of these people were supplied with grain and merchandise fro...
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