What are the two major causes of the fall of roman empire?
Constant civil wars weakened the empire. It’s economy was also a shambles. In the late empire, Italy could not feed itself. It depended on North Africa for corn. The small farmers were dispossessed of their lands by the great landlords who employed slaves. Roman citizens no longer wanted to serve in the legions. There are anecdotes of Romans mutilating themselves so they would not be conscripted. Eventually the Romans recruited germanic tribes en masse as foederati to defend the empire. The Western Roman empire was finished. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_t… The Crisis of the Third Century (also “Military Anarchy” or “Imperial Crisis”) (235–284 AD) was a period in which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressures of invasion, civil war, plague, and economic depression. The Crisis began with the assassination of Emperor Alexander Severus at the hands of his own troops, initia
