why did the roman empire fall when it had so much domination? they revolutionised so much
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It didn’t fall, it just sorta floated downward.
Imagine that you have the best lemonade in town and decide to throw a party with a couple of friends. You are there, drinking your lemonade and then people start noticing you. They want to join the party and drink your lemonade, so you ask them to bring something to the party, like candies or games. This makes the party even better and more people want to join, so you tell them to bring something and you’ll give them the lemonade. Only, there’s a lot of kids and only so much lemonade, so you start watering it down. It’s a little bit, at first, and barely noticeable, so people keep coming and coming and you have to keep watering it down. At some point, it’s not lemonade anymore, just water with a scent of lemon. You look around and the party is still going, but nobody comes to your lemonade stand anymore.
The “barbarians” didn’t want to invade or destroy Rome. They wanted to live inside the safety of its borders and enjoy the comforts it offered to its citizens. Only, due to a lot of factor (mainly its size and corruption) there was less and less that Rome could offer. At some point, there wasn’t *anything* to offer to the barbarians, but they were still expected to work and fight for Rome.
Barbarians had been deposing and electing emperors for centuries, only, at some point, they just deposed one and decided they didn’t care enough to nominate a new one.
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