Which economic cause was responsible for the fall of the roman republic and the roman empire?

Answer 1

Your question can never be answered as it calls for an opinion, not a fact. There were many reasons acting together that culminated in the fall of the western Roman Empire. One "expert" will say it was the weakened army, another will say it was the pressures on the borders and a third might say it was the lack of leadership.They would all be right with perhaps a few more reasons thrown in.

Answer 2

There were multiple harmful economic policies that caused the fall of the Roman Empire. Some of them were:

1. Limitation of gold and silver which lead to inflation
2. Excessive upper-class wealth
3. Increased taxes

Answer 3

Basically, the West Roman Empire had been taken over by Germanic tribes, causing a nearly complete collapse of Roman authority in the area. This happened in large measure because in later times, the the Roman army was largely made up of Germanic people who had come into the Empire and had no political allegiance to it. Another contributing factor is that from about the year 235 on, there were nearly constant usurpations of the emperors, and the strong central authority was weakened greatly as a result.

There were brief periods of respite, as in the reigns of Diocletian and Constantine, but the problem continued and worsened as Germanic leaders put forward their own puppets as imperial claimants. Diocletian divided the empire for administrative purposes, and it was reunited and redivided until it was permanently divided in 395 into the West Roman Empire and the East Roman Empire.

It is important to be careful in understanding this. The Roman Empire did not fall in 476. What happened was that the last emperor of the West Roman Empire was deposed or abdicated, and a delegation of Roman Senators went to Constantinople to ask the emperor of the East Roman Empire to take command of the West. The East Roman Empire continued for nearly another thousand years, though our historians call it the Byzantine Empire.

Also, Roman authority was gone in the Germanic kingdoms, but they continued to regard themselves as being within the Roman Empire in some cases. Roman law continued to operate, and in Italy, the Roman Senate continued to function for a very long time, decades or more.

Answer 4

The Roman Empire was over extended with its army and commitments to its colonies. When the Germanic tribes invaded they interrupted trade and were stealing/rading/killing at will this caused the government to crumble when Rome was taken.

Answer 5

ONe economic reason for why rome fell was because of inflation.

Answer 6

The reason why the Roman empire fell, was because there were diseases, food shortage, armies rebeling, worthless copper coins, and many more.