The Roman Empire, one of the greatest empires known to man, came crashing down after Barbarians took over. After a major flaw in the economy, Rome fell to its knees due to the poor emperors, over expansion and the change in religions, from the Roman religion to Christianity. These things, showed an obvious collapse about to occur. Rome was down, and now belonged to the Barbarians. The poor and short living emperors of Rome greatly contributed to its decline. Most rulings only lasted a year or two, as the most of the emperors were being killed in battles and assassinated due to the wars proceeding throughout the area. Such as in 276 AD, the emperor Florianus survived for under a year and was assassinated.These appalling deaths caused Rome to become unstable and the armies, weaker, making attacks very hard to handle. The emperors were under great pressure to make decisions, and were heavily wanted by other countries. Therefore, emperors of these countries sent people to assassinate them, but it was not only other countries which killed the emperors. Rome was rebelling against their leaders due to their poor choices. This was all because of the pressure of on-coming attacks. This could have been avoided by building a stronger army, but since no changes were …show more content…
Rome’s boarders became extremely large, and ensured that they would not be able to handle an infiltration. This was because Rome did not have a large enough army to protect the boarders and stop any possible enemies from invading the empire, and causing battle. As well as the armies, there were other problems which did not help with the over-expansion of Rome. The emperors were lacking on the economy side, and were quickly running out of resources too. This meant Rome could no longer afford to build and retain the huge barriers to prevent oncoming attacks from the surrounding