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What economic problems did the roman empire face in the third century?
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Rome was plagued by a myriad of problems at this time. including civil wars, invasion, economic depression. The Roman emperor Severus was slain at the hands of his own guard. By 260 CE, the empire had split into three separated parts. Crisis occurred in the Empire to such an extent that it is considered the demarcation line between classical and late antiquity.
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∙ 11y agoThe Problems of the crisis of the 3rd centuries were
1) Repeated invasion or raids in Gaul, across the river Danube and in Syria and Turkey. They were all repelled, but the military and financial cost was very high.
2) Repeated rebellions and usurpations by generals supported by their legions and other civil rebellions. There was also an attempt by the client queen of Palmyra to build a separate (Palmyrene) Empire form Syria to Egypt. All of these were suppressed at great military and financial cost. One successful usurpation lead to the loss of Britannia, Hispania and part of Gaul for 14 years (this has been called by historians the Gallic Empire).
3) Runaway inflation caused by years of debasement (devaluation) of the coins, whose precious metal content was continually decreased. Roman coinage nearly collapsed as it ended up having almost no value.
4) The breakdown of trade within the empire. Continuous fighting made it unsafe for merchants to travel and the debased currency made transactions difficult.
5) Large landowners could not sell their crops to the big cities and concentrated of production of food for local barter. They also produced their own manufactures instead of getting them from the cites.
6) The urban economy collapsed and many people moved to the countryside. The large landowners turned them into servile farm labour, and they lost their freedom. Cities became much smaller and, because of the instability, were walled.
7) Imperial revenues fell, but expenditure rose as the cost of maintaining the army rose due to continuous war, increases it the size of the army and greater reliance on a much larger cavalry (which was more expensive). Goods were demanded as additional forms of taxation.
8) Wealth came to depend more on ownership of large rural estates where crops, now the only valuable resource, were produced. These estates become self-sufficient and inwardly oriented. This lead to fragmentation and localisation within the empire.
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∙ 9y agoThe Crisis of the Third Century, also known as Military Anarchy or the Imperial Crisis, was a period in which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressures of invasion, civil war, plague, and economic depression, between 235 and 284.
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∙ 9y agoThere were a number of economic problems that the Roman Empire faced in the third century. There was military anarchy, plague, civil and other factors that led to economic depression.
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∙ 13y agoSo the Roman Empire was continually growing but when the army brought plunder and new sources of tax money, the empire stopped growing.
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∙ 12y agopolitical instability , how to transfer power peacefully and there was no good system for choosing the next emperor
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