The Causes of the Economic Recession of Later Roman Empire
The causes of the economic recession of later Roman Empire
Ziyan Kong
GLS 470
Jennifer Zoller
March 27, 2012
Abstract
The decline and fall of Roman Empire was an attractive topic. This paper will focus on the economic field. There will be three parts in this paper to analyze the reason of the economic recession happened in later Roman Empire. After the back background introduction, the first part will focus on how the Empire 's military affected the economy. The legions of Empire used to be the reason for the prosperity of the Empire but in the later period they couldn 't protect the Empire any more. The second part will focus on how the political chaos affected the economy. The turbulence in administration system brought the disorder to the Empire and interrupt increase of economy. In the third part, to analysis what kinds of changes happened in the economic field is the purpose. The people lived in Roman Empire, including the Emperor, officers and citizens, didn 't know the importance of industry and commerce. To sum up, the economic recession was resulted by the cause from these three fields.
Introduction Few topics are more attractive than the decline and fall of Roman Empire, one of the world’s earliest superpowers. Roman grew from a small settlement of farmers into an Empire which nearly ruled whole west part of the then known world. The Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Egypt and lasted a considerable long time. Some influence left by Roman still affects the world. Italian, Spanish and French are romance languages and much of the world 's law is derived from imperial Rome. However, as the splendid of Rome 's Rise, the fall of Rome is also very mysterious and rouses endless debate. It took several centuries rather than a few years. The empire experienced a series of disasters during the third century. The civil wars, foreign invasions, plagues and other calamities it suffered for more than half a century after 235AD would have been
Ziyan Kong
GLS 470
Jennifer Zoller
March 27, 2012
Abstract
The decline and fall of Roman Empire was an attractive topic. This paper will focus on the economic field. There will be three parts in this paper to analyze the reason of the economic recession happened in later Roman Empire. After the back background introduction, the first part will focus on how the Empire 's military affected the economy. The legions of Empire used to be the reason for the prosperity of the Empire but in the later period they couldn 't protect the Empire any more. The second part will focus on how the political chaos affected the economy. The turbulence in administration system brought the disorder to the Empire and interrupt increase of economy. In the third part, to analysis what kinds of changes happened in the economic field is the purpose. The people lived in Roman Empire, including the Emperor, officers and citizens, didn 't know the importance of industry and commerce. To sum up, the economic recession was resulted by the cause from these three fields.
Introduction Few topics are more attractive than the decline and fall of Roman Empire, one of the world’s earliest superpowers. Roman grew from a small settlement of farmers into an Empire which nearly ruled whole west part of the then known world. The Roman Empire stretched from Scotland to Egypt and lasted a considerable long time. Some influence left by Roman still affects the world. Italian, Spanish and French are romance languages and much of the world 's law is derived from imperial Rome. However, as the splendid of Rome 's Rise, the fall of Rome is also very mysterious and rouses endless debate. It took several centuries rather than a few years. The empire experienced a series of disasters during the third century. The civil wars, foreign invasions, plagues and other calamities it suffered for more than half a century after 235AD would have been
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