What Caused the Roman Empire to Collapse

What happens when an Empire fails to enforce its rule? Empires FALL! Check out today's epic new video about the great Roman Empire and how a few wrong moves led to the Empire's total collapse!

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[zx-]

So Rome basically fell from poor leadership and a border crisis

[wisdomofanowl]

If you played the campaign mode in Rome: Total War as your empire grew, it is quite hard to manage cities and settlements while defending it from enemies. If it's hard in video game, imagine doing it in real life.

[tysonhughes]

No empire or order will last forever, only death, chaos and destruction is eternal.

[frankisawesomee]

Greed eventually leads to societies downfall and debasement of currency.

[lesliefish]

Rome also suffered from three ecological disasters: 1) the playing out of its major gold, silver, copper and iron mines; 2) a grain blight which reduced North Africa to desert instead of farmland; 3) the first incursion of influenza -- an airborne viral plague -- which wiped out *half* the population. It took a lot to bring that empire down.

[madartzgraphics]

History taught us that the only way to defeat a huge unbeatable empire is to let itself crumble down into pieces.

[englishteacherdon]

This thing sounds eerily like the United States today.

[AutobahnVault]

"Suddenly, the Romans had a huge influx of barbarian warriors fleeing across their border - And Rome's lack of management in their border states came back to haunt them."

Let that sink in.

[tereza]

What i love and find fascinating about Rome is that it never really fell or was destroyed, Rome just became so huge and had so many different cultures within it that it just morphed into small alternative versions of Rome, France, Spain and Portugal have a strong influence from Rome in their buildings, language and religion, even England was heavily influenced by Roman culture and values.

[afrikasmith]

Commondus is a prime example of what a weak man is. His father was a great leader, but he didn't spend enough time with his son. This had a negative effect on Commondus and it was one of the many things that made him into the man he was. The key to good leaders and less corruption is both education and a healthy household where both parents have time to spend with their kids.

[DRUIDLABI]

How often do we think about the Roman Empire? More than 2.1 million times obviously!!! 😂

[delmaquezada]

Excellent, enjoyed this video very much. Thanks

[Silvercrypto-xkzy]

some of this is eerily similar to modern day America. not saying it will end tomorrow but we are definitely in a noticeable decline with no signs of changing

[MrSean]

Rome did not so much fall but more faded away. Once the empire was split in half the empires ability to deal with constant invasions, especially in the west, was greatly diminished. As the empire sustained military loses it was carved up piece by piece. With each new region being lost the tax revenue was lost, making the empire that much weaker. A downward economic and military spiral. Octavian (Augustus) himself knew the empire would not last forever and wrote that in personal letters that I have read.

[xrpbluemarvel]

It never ended its still going on today we still use the Roman calendar

[JosephS]

This video was so interesting I’ve thought about the Roman Empire every day since.

[nenenindonu]

Germanic and Hunnic tribes broke the Roman empire in half, Rashiduns and Seljuks broke the backbone of the remaining Eastern portion by snatching Anatolia, North Africa and the Levant, and Ottomans did the ultimate finish

[ScentsOfSouthJersey]

So we are just excluding how eastern half of the Roman Empire survived for another 977 years ? West or East didn’t matter it was still the Roman Empire. Once the west fell they didn’t all the sudden change their name and identity to “The Byzantines”, the term byzantine empire wasn’t even created until the year 1557 a full 104 years after the complete fall of the Roman’s on may 29th 1453….RIP Constantine XI he died like a badass

[dj]

Thank you for a really good overview of the Fall of Rome.
If you do a movie detailed documentary I think the areas of the use of mercenaries, the deep decline of people living by their own moral standards and the relationship of the Roman Empire's citizens personal wealth and the decline of the Roman citizens moral life.
Keep the great work.

[emib]

Like lots of documentary said, the causes of it's fall weren't barbarians invasions, they had it for centuries, and the majority of its population was originally foreigners that were invaded and integrated.
it's fall was caused by infightings, thirst of power and a paralysed society more interested in the status quo than evolving itself for surviving the future.