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What are two factors that led to the weakening of the Roman Empire?
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The vast size of the Roman Empire contributed to its fall. The government was not efficient, and it suffered from corruption. Rome was no longer the great center it had once been.
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∙ 14y agoThere is room for endless discussion about this, but one valid position is that the decline of the empire was caused partly by the weakness of Rome, and partly by the strength of its opponents.
A major source of the weakness of Rome was that from the election of Trajan on (and possibly earlier) the position of Emperor was largely decided by the legions. Each legion had its set of preferred candidates, and the advantages of having an emperor in your favour was so great that many legions were more concerned with fighting other legions over who should be emperor than with defending Rome's frontiers. When the army takes a major interest in home affairs, any country is in trouble. (Think of Iran).
A major source of the increasing strength of Rome's opponents was that the territory lost to the German forces of Arminius after the defeat in the Teutoberg forest was never regained. From the time of Arminius' success any aspiring barbarian chief knew that the Romans were beatable. The Roman Republic had bounced back after its near annihilation at Cannae by Hannibal, but the Empire had no such resilience. The Germans held on to the territory they had won at Teutoberg, and the myth of Roman invincibility was gone forever.
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