fall of ancient rome?
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This is quite complicated.  The History Channel has a good show on this topic called Julius Caesar's Rome, which tells about the rise and fall of the roman empire.  \n\nCheck this site for a brief history:
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One of the more current theories suggest that Stonehenge is a death monument. There is a nearly identical monument called Woodhenge (since it it made of mostly wood) up the river from Stonehenge, and it has been suggested that Woodhenge is the "life monument" on the other end of the English equivalent of the River Styx. As to sending oneself back to ancient Rome... stop playing so many role playing games!
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Classical antiquity period
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When Plato's ancestor Solon went to Sais in Egypt (600 BC), the priests told him about Atlantis. They also said that inscriptions on their temple walls told how many times civilisations had risen to great heights and then fallen because of natural catastrophes such as floods, fire, earthquakes, etc. I think that maybe we are being a little presumptuous to think that it can't happen to us. I have spent the last 15/20 years researching a related subject and in my opinion the last great catastrophe was 9600 BC, with the sudden and abrupt end of the mini-ice-age called the Younger Dryas period. I believe that this is the basis of the Biblical flood. Getting back to today - the Christian versus Muslim thing - yep, of course it coming, you can smell it! I should imagine that most of the faceless men in grey suits already know this and are moving their pieces on the world chess board accordingly. Humans are amazing - we've been on the moon and sent machines out to beyond the solar system, I can pick up my phone and talk immediately to a person on the other side of the world, I can sit in my armchair and with the smallest of thumb movements be entertained by 100 different TV channels - but with the flick of an eyelid this civilisation can be destroyed because people believe that their unseen and unproven overlord of the cosmos is better than the other man's invisible and all-seeing ever-present boss. It almost makes you want to scream! We're such clever animals - but I don't think that we're too intelligent - and when it's all over we'll begin again.
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Countries rise and fall.\n\nTis' but a thing in history.
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Italy, or more appropriately, Rome.
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Look on Wikipedia.  Start with Rome, and if you are referring to the Collisseum, just search for that.  There is a lot of information there.
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In the past, this was not an issue. the loser was slaughtered wholesale. Rome was one of the first (or most successful) at assimilating conquered peoples. Successful assimilation means you must force, or entice, the conquered peoples to adopt your language, culture and customs. what naturally happens then is a blend of the two - which is also one reason that Rome fell (among many). Because if you are too successful as a conqueror, then you lose critical mass for your own culture.  \n\nYou could draw a parallel with America since they are (or have been in the past) so successful that they draw peoples from different cultures at such a rate that the 'original culture' is overwhelmed with external cultures [like cuban, mexican, other South American cultures, Canadian, and finally Asian influx (including India) via H1B visas and other legitimate immigration].\nForget about crimes and criminality - that is a temporary conflict between two cultures. Think longer term - like 100 yrs being equivalent to one year. Then you will see your own answer to your question. \n\nStudy the past or be condemned to repeat it. In particular, start with Persia, Egypt and progress through the Germanic tribes and the Normans.  You will get a fantastic view into man's inhumanity and the temporal nature of what is considered criminal and grotesque in a given culture.  You may also come to a realization that every species has its time at the top and then some other species will correct the last 'correction'.  We won't be the last.
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Perhaps if you posted the Latin you might get some responses.  How many people here on Yahoo who know Latin do you think have actually been there and have seen it?  And remember the whole inscription?
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The Egyptian Empire didn't dissolve due to desert encroachment.  They were overrun by other various empires, including the Persian, Macedonian (which became the Ptolemaic in Egypt), and the Roman Empires.  (There were other peoples who had ruled Egypt before these, i.e. the Hyksos, but these three were responsible for the eventual destruction of ancient Egyptian culture, which was to be forgotten until the Napoleonic Era.)\n\nTo adress your question though, it depends on the disaster, and the location of its occurence.  A record breaking tsunami along the East Coast of China, as terrible as it would be, would probably not result in the cessation of the U.S., although the effects of it would definiely be felt worldwide.  A supervolcano erupting in Yellowstone National Park, on the other hand, could indded cause an end to the nation.
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Julius Caesar should have stopped at Act 3... but personal opinions aside... have you read Act 5?\n\nHave you read about all the bodies dropping onto their swords?  Does this surprise you?  Does this change your opinion of the men who thought they were killing Caesar to save their country?\n\nNot gonna do your homework for you.  If you're confused, try asking better questions.
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History shows when you destroy the middle class the economy and state will fall as well.  This is why the roman empire fell.  There can not be black and white meaning poor and rich.  Look at the depression.
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I asked a question similar to this several weeks ago.  When looking at the similar patterns of history (such as the fall of Rome), it is apparent that the US will fall just as the Romans did.  \n\nAlthough many people in the US are unable to see how close they are to the greed, ego-centricism, denial and arrogance of ancient Roman culture, perhaps it will become more apparent when the society starts to fail and becomes lost.
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There will be a too huge of a list of reasons, but still it was an early form of a democracy that was tested out and civilized the Roman Empire for a while, which includes a large amount of territory. Any time you have a decadent society and barbarian symbolizims accompanying a heathenistic world, there is so much conflict that it will refuse to be dicated too for the violence,death and blood shed it was built upon spreds as a virus where all of the others around you develop this same thought and now you have armies that pop up everywhere to defeat their conquerers after they weaken. In the case of Rome it was weakened when Pompeii waged war with Julius Caesar. Yes Julius built the Senate and conquered that known world then and when he wanted to settle in and develop a culture and fix the disease and famon in Rome (the city of light) the Senate would not tolerate this for they would have to give up the wealth that Julius had afforded them from War. They just figured he should just keep fighting and they would sit back and in lust and greed get fat off the profits. He received knowledge an inner peace to be content with what they had accomplished but they assasinated him. Anytime you have an assasination like that and a cruel ruler like Octavian who lusted and got fat off the people that was the beginning of the fall and they never recupperated from that until Marcus Aurelius, and then inevitably they were surviving on one thread. The well know enemies the Huns, Constatine, etc. surrounded and brought the demise of this once thought of good civilizations. Many people (rulers, senators, governors, military men) brought down the city of Rome. Rome never really developed but they had a good concept at first and then the corruption sets in just like our own government today. If you dont clean up your filth, feed your people, provide them with food and shelter, and let disease go rampid, all will fail. When you put people to death in a public display guilty or innocent it gives a bad example of the rulership of any government. No government will survive on terroristic, ruthless tactics ever. There is always someone bigger waiting in the shadows for the crack at the title.
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There were many reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire. Each one intertwined with the next.   They include a decline in morals and values, health and environmental problems, political corruption, unemployment, inflation, urban decay, inferior technology, military spending, civil war in Italy, etc.\n\nThese links should help you.  Good luck with your essay.
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The major military reason for the fall of the Roman empire was the invading Germanic tribes which began to encroach by about the mid 4th century AD (mostly the Goths who wanted to be more like the Romans-which is a social reason).   Pax Romana began to disintigrate as the army had fewer people joining and this small force had to face the Goth threat.  Once the empire became so large and supply lines so stretched, it began to cave in on itself and had little power to stop Alaric & the other Goth invaders.Political demise began, after Constantine split the empire into two (East becoming Byzantium with capital at Constantinople) virtually separate kingdoms and increased with a series of ineffective leaders during the 5th century.   Economically, the major issue was a lack of a tax base and increasing demand for the government to pay for more.  Gibbon blamed the fall of Rome on the social aspect, Christianity, whereas I feel it had much to do with a snobbery (we're better than you) among its people that helped to make it vulnerable.  I hope this answers your question.  That's it in a nutshell.