... between the classes. Waves of plagues also effected the populous of the larger cities. This is said to have effected as much as twenty percent of the population. Needless to say this would have caused drops in economic production and threatening social stability. (Nardo qtd. In Mehalek "The fall of the Roman Empire") Another important reason for the fall of Rome was the apparent political and social problems. Many of these were the result of the division administered by Diocletian ... during his reign as emperor. The largest problem with his new system was ... ...

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... that no one could say for certain if it was an aristocracy or democracy or despotism (Reader, The Histories of Polybius, 32). In the 2nd century B.C, the senate became the effective governing body in Rome. All the Members were the wealthy aristocrats and powerful people. Roman Republic started to fall with lots of civil wars for power and came to an end with Julius Caesar's assassination. Roman Republic dramatically ... started the new system of legates to govern the provinces, who were allotted to the princeps. Roman Empire was on its heights in the age of Augustus, but it came near to...

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