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Thirty-five of the Pilgrims were members of the radical English Separatist Church, who traveled to America to escape the jurisdiction of the Church of England, which they found corrupt. Ten years earlier, English persecution had led a group of Separatists to flee to Holland in search of religious freedom.
Answer:
The main reasons for the collapse of the Roman Empire was foreign invaders, decrease in trade, corrupt government, internal revolts, and collapse of the economy.
Explanation:
- Roman Empire was weakened by different reasons that it finally collapsed.
- The main reasons being overreach of the military, invasion by determined Huns and Visigoths tribes from Central and Northern Europe, inflation (economic decline), corruption in the government and other political reasons.
- All these factors were linked to each other. Military decline meant less of the people had jobs in military.
- It resulted in less people wanting to have children. Also, people were suffering from the plague that killed millions in Europe.
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We can thank geography for that. If you look at a map of Eurasia, you can see many massive mountain ranges and rivers, all of which separate early tribes apart. When one tribe is split apart for long enough, the people in each tribe develop their own distinct and unique identity, which also includes languages. There are several very interesting researches on this phenomenon online if you look deep enough and I do recommend you check them out, it's quite the fascinating read.