Multiple reasons but they can all be summarized as crazy amounts of corruption, rome arrived were allot of modern societies are reaching now: housing was monopolized, inflation was out of control, allot of bullshit jobs and nepotism, etc. unfortunately for them there was ALLOT of barbarians outside the gates while this was all going on. You’d see the same dissolving of allot of current places if not for our extended period of peace.
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