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Originally Posted by legion
Civilization is a temporary state. Empires rise and fall. When the Romans stopped conquest and became more concerned with bread and circus, their fates were sealed.
I imagine that the reason that the population of Rome declined from around a million people just before the fall to around 35,000 in roughly 100 years was because many of the soft citizens could not cut it.
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NO the empire stop expansion by 1 ACE except for minor bits like Britannia
and that was all over before 100ACE but rome's golden age was 0 to 200 ACE
or exactly when the conquest stopped
WHAT KILLED THE EMPIRE WAS THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
allowed by 320 the church quickly took over and destroyed the other beliefs
and by 405 Rome was sacked [by another christian german sect]
bread and circus didNOT cause the fall christians DID