Why Rome Fell (a condensed version)
The sun had long ago set, the newborn moon peeked out from behind a
scattering of thin, high clouds. From a vantage point atop one of seven hills I
could see glimpses of how this great city must once have looked. The mammoth
buildings seem to shed their long years and are once again as they were; huge,
awe inspiring, it is as if a portal in time had opened and I am afforded a
glimpse into what was Rome. What could have caused this once master of all
cities to fall? This paper will attempt to describe some of the explanations
generally accepted, or should I say argued, and possibly shed some light on what
could have caused the fall of what was, unquestionably, the most powerful empire
in history.
I feel that I must begin with the explanations given by Edward Gibbon.
While few agree entirely with his logic, his Decline and Fall on the Roman
Empire is certainly unavoidable in a paper such as this. His work could be best
summed up by the word......
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