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210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire

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Hopefully about now I've had about three liters of banana gelato - the good kind, that's all awful and grey looking but tastes so good you almost die. It's been over 15 years some I've had some in Rome. Anyway, Why did Rome fall? Here are 210 reasons from Der Fall Roms (1984)

And these are just the ones filed under "A":

Abolition of gods

Abolition of rights

Absence of character

Absolutism

Agrarian question

Agrarian slavery

Anarchy

Anti-Germanism

Apathy

Aristocracy

Asceticism

Attack of the Germans

Attack of the Huns

Attack of riding nomads

(Via UTexas)

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