The fall of the Western Roman Empire (also called the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Rome) was the loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire, a process in which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor polities.
The Roman Empire lost the strengths that had allowed it to exercise effective control over its Western provinces as a result of the following:
- Military Reasons: The decline of the effectiveness and numbers of the army,
- The health and numbers of the Roman population,
- The strength of the economy,
- Changes in Leadership: The incompetence of the emperors,
- Reasons why the Greeks disliked Roman rule: The internal struggles for power,
- Religious Issues: The religious changes of the period, and
- The inefficiency of the civil administration.
Increasing pressure from invading barbarians outside Roman culture also contributed greatly to the collapse. Climatic changes and both endemic and epidemic disease drove many of these immediate factors.
In 376, unmanageable numbers of Goths and other non-Roman people, fleeing from the Huns, entered the Empire. In 395, after winning two destructive civil w.a.r.s., Theodosius I died, leaving a collapsing field army, and the Empire, still plagued by Goths, divided between the warring ministers of his two incapable sons.
<h3>What constitutes the Roman Empire?</h3>
Roman Empire, the ancient empire, centred on the city of Rome, that was established in 27 bce following the demise of the Roman Republic and continuing to the final eclipse of the empire of the West in the 5th century ce.
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