The Roman Empire fell because of political weakness, but this was not the only factor involved. The Roman Empire stood in great power for many decades. Rome was considered the center of civilization for years. Even though it attracted many invaders, the city was well protected by its surrounding walls and powerful army. Some people believed that the Roman Empire would last forever.
Under the rule of Diocletian and later Constantine, the empire was split into Western and Eastern parts of Rome. The emperors said that the reason for this was to make it easier to govern. The emperor chose to govern and build the capital in the Eastern part and gave the Western part to a co-emperor. The reason for that might have been that the Eastern part was much richer in resources and had better lands for farming. There may have been other reasons for that such as the Eastern part did not produce enough food for both parts of the empire and by separating them they’d have to produce their own food and depend upon themselves. This was the beginning to a long struggle of the Western part that was now basically left alone. Many reforms came in to law to keep the empire together, such as t
The people of the Western empire at first just continued with their lives because the division of the empire did not have an immediate effect on the Western part. Soon people started realizing that the Eastern part had almost separated from them taking everything all these people fought for together. People started getting mad because now separated they did not have enough resources to support a whole empire. Citizens started loosing hope, and with it, their loyalty to the emperor and the Church. These people at first blamed the co-emperor for letting the East separate but soon understood that the emperor meant for all of this to happen and lost hope. The Christian Church took a great role in government, since the co-emperor could no longer control the empire with all the revolts against him. Soon Christianity became the official religion of the Romans. Rome was slowly falling, the only thing that was still kind of keeping the empire together were the rich nobles who were making money by making the peasants work for them for very little pay but these peasants needed money to feed their families so they worked. Also many problems stood in the way when the Church wanted to also take part in political issues as wel
Example Essays Home
