TOP 3 REASONS ROME FELL

#3 OVEREXPANSION

• Rome had control of too much land and they couldn't afford to manage all of it
• Cost too much money to expand and they couldn't develop cities
• More land means more chance of invasions and that also costs alot of money
• Financially unstable

#2 MILITARY

• Had to pay soldiers so that they would fight for Rome
• Cost money to buy loyalty
• Economy was already poor
• Needed soldiers to defend all the land
• Had to replace fallen soldiers

#1 THE PLAGUE

• Killed hundreds of thousands of people
• Killed soldiers and famers and many others
• Had to buy more soldiers
• Crops died and agriculture production wasnt efficient
• Plummeted economy