Rome: Once the largest ruling power, now shattered. What happened so many centuries ago, to make such a eminent power crumble to the ground? Powers come and go but their legacies live on. These legacies are our pedagogues; we learn from them and perfect ourselves and our nations. In researching Rome’s past, I believe that the primary cause of the fall of Rome was due to political and economic reasons. Rome was contrived to …showed first 75 words of 605 total…

…showed last 75 words of 605 total…both. This created even more civil war and turmoil. In conclusion many thing contributed to the fall of Rome. The political system as well as the economic system. Rome had its great moments and its tragic ones, but on the whole Rome had the biggest effect in the evolution of the political and cultural world. Its fall would mark the end of the Classical Age and would launch the world into the dark Middle Ages.