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Originally Posted by anatta
The decline and fall of the Roman empire was caused by internal strife.
it was caused by endless war and single ppl amassing too much power due to wealth disparity. few rich ppl owned all the land and used slaves to cultivate it so the poor ppl had no way of earning wealth. then Marius was like, well we got all these young poor ppl, may as well use them to win wars and now the political leaders were able to have entire armies loyal only to them.