The Roman Empire

Rome was an envied, wealthy city, that was the capital of the greatest Empire in all of the land, at the time. At the height of the Empire they might have had a population of a few million, and was worth over billions of dollars.Although great, the Empire fell for the most simple things. The Empire let the small things go and the small things built up over time to cause a huge problem in the end which brought the end to the Empire.
This great Empire was huge, fasting over the entire, now, Europe continent. The Empire was controlled or ruled by a council of 300 members. This council made every decision from how the money was spent to how a small town was going to receive its supplies (Payne). People called this Empire a Republic because of
For one, a lot of farmers were leaving the capital and its neighboring region, because of poor soil. The soil was running almost completely low of nutrients and such from tons of farming. Then again the Empire was around a few million people, which means that there was probably a lot of farming going on. Most of these farmers moved west into the vast territory of the Roman Empire(Goldsmith).
During this slow decline in the Empire, Caesar made a lot of new rules and did some pretty weird things. For one, he passed a law allowing men to meet in bars and anywhere else to discuss whatever they felt like talking about. After he passed laws like this he put a person in his place while he claimed to be going on a leave of absences. The person that was put in charge made erratic choices and, is what most people think, is why the Empire lost its grip on its territory in Israel(Cowell).
While Caesar was on his leave of absence, he sabotaged and destroyed a large amount of strongholds and important buildings. It is said that Caesar wanted to become the dictator of Rome and claim everything for his own(Cowell). Also because of Caesar’s new rules in place, a revolution was beginning to take place. This revolution was led by a man named Cato (his last name is not
This border was constantly being attacked by tribes of Germans. They were always attacking and most of the time they could barely even just get past the barricades, that are placed 50 feet from the wall around the border. Although these groups couldn’t even make it to the wall, they slowly did damage and weaken the northern wall. Some say that the wall was so ruined that all small army as big as 200 people could invade and take over the entire northern part of the