The Fall of the Roman Empire

The decline and fall of something as monumentally complex as the roman empire is not going to be able to be explained away by one or two simple causes. All these theories are likely correct to some degree, and each played off each other in a synergistic orgy of destruction. Now i tend to break all this down into six broad categories, which i'd like to run through briefly with you now: political factors, economic factors, military factors, social factors, religious factors and environmental factors. Though we are not going to land on a definitive answer for why the stern empire fell, it will still be fun to walk through each of these to give you an idea of what Rome was really