why did the roman empire fall when it had so much domination? they revolutionised so much
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It is worth pointing out that the Roman empire, when taken in its totality, spanned (if you include the early republic) from 509 BC to 1452. It is a failure of education that people think that the Roman empire fell in 476. A big chunk of it did, but the Eastern Roman empire continued and was an influential part of the middle ages.
That is a long chunk of time for any contiguous political entity, so it is incumbent on us to respect that. If you are asking, specifically, about the Western Roman empire then it comes down to a failure of integrating European peoples into its culture and the pressures of the Hunnic invasions. The Roman military, increasingly, relied on contracted soldiers from outside of the legions, for their defense. This turned the legions into a mercenary army, resulting in very well trained barbarian armies, trained by the Romans themselves. When those same people wanted to live within the inner Roman borders and be considered Roman citizens, Rome massacred barbarian settlers and banned marriage between Romans and Barbarians.
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