Fall of Roman Empire
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Essay title: Fall of Roman Empire
The Romans existed as an important power for over 1000 years. They brought stability, prosperity, and order to the civilized West.
The growth of the Roman Empire had always been based on invasions, and the Empire's economy was increasing with the exploitation of the new colonies.
How could Rome fall? The fall of the Roman Empire was terrible and it took Western Civilization nearly ten centuries to recover and modernize a world which could be the rival of the civilization of Rome.
Historians' ideas of the fall of Rome ranges from theories that the population was subject to large-scale lead poisoning to the notion that the empire simply grew too big and complex to be centrally governed anymore. In fact, when we mention the concept of "fall", it embraces the notions of politic, social and economic reasons. As Edward Gibbon wrote in his famous book, "The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate