What are some causes for the fall of rome?
Reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire: A) Vegetius: ‘Germanization’ and dilapidation of the armed forces of the Western Roman Empire contributed to the fall of the Roman Empire. To counter this threat, the Eastern Roman Empire developed a thalassocracy within the Propontic and Euxine Seas of their syphonopho-rami dromons, adopted the themata system in Anatolia as under Heraclius, Nikephorous II Phocas and Basil II Bulgaroctonus, created a ditrichotomous system of the military: the comitatenses as the main military contingents and the limitanei as the demarcation garrisons from 330-610 CE, and from 610-1081 CE the use of the kataphractoi and clibanaphoroi, and the themata system, and from 1081-1204 CE the use of the skutatoi and toxitai formations, and from 1204-1453 CE the use of heterochthonous forces or foreignors, and adscititious or auxiliary forces, under the rule of the Sebastokraters of the multifarious Despotates. B) Edward Gibbon: The greater role of Christianity caused a d
