why did the roman empire fall when it had so much domination? they revolutionised so much
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The Roman empire was REALLY big. Like imagine England to the west part of North Africa to further east than egypt, all of france, all of italy and spain, the balkans, turkey to saudi arabia.
Now imagine you need to protect that vast territory against invaders. The most advanced form of communication was basically sending a letter by horse or by boat. It could take years to actually get an army recruited and send them off to beat invaders. This became such a big problem that they just divided the empire in half so they could react to threats a bit faster
Such a vastly huge territory was also at risk of revolts since most of the territory was basically groups they conquered and would rise up if they saw weaknesses.
In addition to that, the whole army was ludicrously expensive to train and maintain. The amount of money spent on the Roman military was larger than many empires had in total.
Take all these factors and throw in the fact that Roman leadership was highly unstable, with many emperors being killed and replaced in short periods of time, and its not hard to see how they transformed from all-conquering to a bloated empire with fragile control over most of its territory and the inability to fund and defend the extents of its borders.
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