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What ultimately lead to the Roman Empire’s downfall?

Ok

So

I’m well educated on this

Air conditioning

Everything

A big dude with a big army burnt the city to the ground

I’m REALLY well educated on this

Same as anything, corruption.

That's the main one

I’d say hedonism and laziness.

The empire was fine under Marcus Antoninus.

However, An emperor named Commodus pulled up

Rome fell due to degeneration of the people physically and spiritually, and then a series of restorative movements rose up attempting to stop this each failing to truly redeem the Roman people.

Lazy, ineffective ruler

Who was unpopular

He was assassinated and the throne fell into chaos

In 193; there were 5 claimants for the throne and Septimius Severus ended up claiming it

All was gucci until 211 when he died and Geta took the throne.

His own brother killed him in his mom’s arms.

He was one cruel bastard ngl

So it was the 3rd Century Crisis?

Burned down Alexandria when they dissed him

@Florida Man yeah.

Big Barbarians

Not even barbarians

After Caracalla was assassinated a string of emperors came up

And also the murder of the greatest Roman emperor at the time

Resulting in 20 years of like 17 emperors

Oh yeah Caracalla

Isn’t he Severus’s son

It was ok from 263 when Gallienus was in power

“Our sires’ age was worse than our grandsires’. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt.” --Horace 1st century BCE

The empire somehow recovered; but we’re not done here

Diocletian ended up making a tetrarchy by 284

That was fine; worked out ok

Enter 337 CE; constantine’s death

The empire did super well under Cinstantine

Constantine

The G****rms and H****ns

It was then split under his three sons