why did the roman empire fall when it had so much domination? they revolutionised so much
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There are lots of reasons. Internal conflict weakened Rome. Read into the crises of the third century. During that period there were 26 people claiming the title emperor with some holding areas of the Empire. Trade broke down during the crises and society changed due to economic disruptions.
Large parts of the what would become the Western Roman empire started to change at a pretty fundamental level. Trade and the citizens of Rome started to be replaced by large landowners and Coloni, basically the start of feudalism in Western Europe.
The Empire was united by Aurelian but it was on shaky ground. Ultimately the Empire was split into east and west.
The East was the stronger of the two nations. The Western Roman Empire was on shaky ground and economically barely able to sustain itself.
The rest history. Large scale migrations, Germanic tribes that gave a much stronger Rome issues took advantage of it’s weakened state. Former allies like the Franks started to turn on Rome.
The East lasted awhile more. Byzantium lasted technically until the 1400’s though at that point I believe it was pretty much modern day Istanbul, some surrounding land and a few islands.
The fall of Rome was a long process.
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