What caused the roman empire to fall?
Other reasons include: dictatorship (emperors were bad leaders, yet they could not be voted out of office); the spread of Christianity (unlike Roman religion, it was popular with slaves, the poor, and women); wars with hostile peoples (trade was disrupted, economic decline); Rome hired its conquered peoples to be soldiers (Visigoths were not loyal to Rome, and as they became responsible for running the army, Rome lost control of its provinces); social unrest (Rome needed the army to suppress poor riotors, yet the money that paid the army came from taxes, which made the poor even poorer and the rich even richer, the gap just got bigger and bigger).
