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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: haqihana who wrote (78169)4/15/2000 12:28:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
There's a good deal more, all of it worth reading.

The decline of the Roman Empire had a great deal to do with the simple realities of Imperial overstretch. There were not enough Roman legions to occupy the Empire or Roman citizens to administer it, so Rome was forced to rely on conscripts from the conquered territories; loyalty was dubious. Tax revenue (plunder) from the conquered territories resulted in wealth divorced from productivity, which eliminated much incentive to be productive. All of these factors, and many others, combined with a sudden influx of more aggressive and militarily competent newcomers, brought the Empire down. Many other Empires, by no means all of them morally debauched, have fallen for the same reasons.

The notion that Rome was brought down by moral debauchery is historical revisionism: twisting of history to make a desired point. The point may or may not be valid, but the history does not support the point nearly as consistently as many would like us to believe.
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