Why did Rome fall ?
Well, the old-fashioned, traditional explanation for the fall of Rome points out the mass migration as the biggest reason for the collapse of Rome. In ancient European history it happened two or three times that huge migrations took place, hundreds of thousands, even millions of people set out to find new homelands. The fact that such a mass migration took place whilst the Romans were still in power, must be seen as at least a major contributor to their fall. For as we see in modern days too, armies can fight other armies, but they cannot fight entire peoples. The Romans were overwhelmed in a human deluge. But today one tends not to rely so much on the idea of mass migration and rather understands Rome as having suffered from an entire list of problems. Rome had always had its fair share of bad emperors. Caligula, Nero, Commodus are such examples. But there always followed good emperors to correct their errors. At Rome’s end however, there was really no good rulers. For example great g
