“ Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”- Seneca the Elder of Rome. The Roman Republic began to change into an Empire when Julius Caesar established himself as dictator, but it after he was assassinated in 44 BC, Augustus made the change officially and helped expanded the Empire into the powerhouse that it became. Rome took over much of Europe and had control of land from England to Northern Africa. But eventually the Empire began a decline, and with the Sack of Rome in 410 AD the Western Roman Empire fell to the Visigoths. The Roman Empire collapsed to due to a variety of reasons, including societal, political, and economical issues.
The social issues in Rome weakened the people and made the community less strong as a whole. An example of this is how the country was divided into two different groups by Constantine, creating a language barrier, as the Byzantine Empire spoke Greek, while the Western Roman Empire spoke Latin. This created
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An example of this is how in 44 BC, Julius Caesar was assassinated by senators of his own government. Power was usually obtained in Rome by the leader being killed and someone else taking power forcibly, which understandably created big changes in the Empire, like the changes that Constantine made (The institution of Christianity, and the splitting of the Byzantine, and Western Roman Empire.) Another way that political issues negatively impacted the Roman Empire was the massive size of the Empire, at over 5 million square kilometers. This weakened the outside of the country, because they didn’t have enough soldiers and leaders to keep control of the area, especially due to the struggle of communicating to someone and a long distance back in those times. The political problems in the Roman Empire certainly led to the downfall to one of the greatest empires in