They adapted and survived
Once free, the Romans established a republic, a government in which citizens elected representatives to rule on the behalf. A republic is quite different from a democracy, in which every citizen is exected to play an active role in governing. So Roman people
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The reason for the collapse of the state was World War I, the 1918 crop failure and the economic crisis. ... Legally, the collapse of the empire was formalized in the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye with Austria, which also acted as a peace treaty after the First World War, and in the Treaty of Trianon with Hungary.
During the vietnam war( second indo china war) was between the us and vietnam. US general William Westmoreland was the general of the us forces