Was the Roman Empire destined to fall?
The Roman Empire fell apart for many reasons. One of them being that it was far too large to administer it properly. So, it had been subdivided twice. Once in Western empire with Rome as the capital city, one in Eastern empire with Byzantium as the capital city. Then it was subdivided again so now it was in 4 parts. Rivalries, lack of ethics, negligence drove the emperors into ruin. Another factor was the number of slaves. They far outnumbered the free people. They also were despite themselves the competitors of free artisans, since they were free labor. The Roman army was the strongest at the time of Pompey, Caesar, Octavian Augustus, but later on, the soldiers were mere mercenaries who were paid to wage war and had no loyalty for the people or the Senate of Rome. At the end of the Roman empire in Rome, the emperors were named “barrack emperors”, because they were soldiers who presented themselves for the position of emperor and the procedure was similar to an auction sale: they would
