How did Judaism contribute to the fall of the Roman Empire?
Judaism itself had little effect one way or the other, but Christianity very much did contribute to the fall of the Empire. In part, it did so by undermining traditional Roman values and virtues. It also had a lot to do with the loss of a common Roman identity. In other words, towards the end, Romans began to lose any shared sense of what it meant to be a Roman. Start out with this premise: Christianity was the revenge of the Jews on the Roman Empire. It’s a bit of a jest, but also true in a sense. See where you can get from there. The basic skeleton of the idea is that Roman military and political domination of the Jews gave rise to a Jewish messianic movement, which spawned Chrisitanity, which eventually became a powerful corrosive influence in the collapse of the Roman Empire. The Church eventually supplanted the Roman Empire as the dominant political institution in Europe, but this was only accomplished by the abandonment by the Church of the late Roman tradition of religious toler
