I am writing a 5 page paper about the fall of the roman empire...i need any info. i can get...Thanks?
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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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talk about the colonization, and particularly, what happened when they left. When they left, because the africans wanted freedom, they took all of the educated people with them. They basically left (through various means) the africans with no experience in running their own country, no education, no recourses, no help, etc. Corruption quickly sprang up, lots of civil wars and discontent ensued. Good luck with the essay! Hope that helped a bit!
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Hi, I found this site, about half way down the page is a heading reading "How the Romans Changed Britain".  It's a small section, but should house alot of information.  There's also information on the architecture brought north by the Romans.  This page should be pretty helpful.  Good luck.
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check out this site it might help\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome
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http://www.roman-emperors.org/hadrian.htm#Note%201\n\ngo to ^ website for picture
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I nominate "FIZZ' for BEST ANSWER  because it is historically correct.  And he barely scratched the surface of the Roman Empire.  No matter, he is right.  Also, thvannas@verizon.net is well-read and educated and I never expected to hear Gibbons name here in immigration.  Doesn't anyone read world civilizations histories?  Our entire USA government is based upon the Roman's.  I could go on and on because my better half is an expert at Roman History and has engrained it into my mind for the last 16 years, but if you research the Roman Empire thoroughly, there was very little that their civilization did not touch on and improve, right down to indoor plumbing, heating, clean city streets with sewer systems, the extraordinary aqueducts that mastered water hydraulics over many miles to erupt in glorious city fountains clean enough to drink from and a new art form that has never been duplicated, right up to the legendary Roman Roads, built to last forever, all leading into the city of Rome which unfortunately was their undoing after the government was corrupted and the mass invasions of the Barbarians led them right down their own paths to the Fall.  \nIt lasted 2000 YEARS--not 200 and has never been out-done or duplicated since.  They had the British Empire as a part of their captured countries and the Great Hadrian built his Roman villas and walls there and actually lived most of his entire life in the British Isles; his ruins are still in existence.  They even had Africa.  And when they overtook a country, they gave the people Roman citizenship which came with great benefits while still enabling them to retain all of their culture.  They weren't like the Spaniards who screwed up the Aztecs totally for gold.\nThey had diplomacy, respect, a working government which they developed and even their bad sides were exciting and bizarre.  Like The Vestal Virgins.  Research them.  If you were a condemned criminal on your way to be cruxified and crossed the path of a Vestal Virgin, she had the power to simply say, "Stop. No.  Release him on my word" and that was that.  They were a blow-out of greatness and might and to try and compare our homeland that's still in it's infancy to these bad-a$$es who invented the very things that our modern age uses everyday--like cement, that could harden under water, the list is too long. I'm in no way putting down our own great nation, we've achieved a place in history too.\nBut the world has never had a military without benefit of modern weapons, bombs, tools, computers, just a wall of marching gladiators going into hand war combat like the legions of the Roman Armies.  They did not go into battle or wage war to lose.  Period.  They even staged battles and killings within their own ranks for public entertainment at the Colesium as a form of pride.  \nI'm serious here, now--I want you to really check out the Roman Empire and give credit where credit is due, and that HAS TO BE TO GIVE FIZZ "BEST ANSWER".  \nThe others are great too and well noted, but his is the truth.  \nPS.  Your question is the best question I've come across yet in the Immigration category since February, so kudos to you too for ingenuity.   Excellent inquiry.
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http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0213201/GreatWall.htm\n\n\ntry this site, It is really intresting, I learned things, and history was my favorite subject in school. hope it helps.
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<>Try these:\nhttp://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/time_line.html\nhttp://www.chinapage.com/emperor.html\nhttp://www.paulnoll.com/China/Dynasty/history-Emperors-choices.html
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There a lots of great ways to start this paper.  If I were writing it, I would probably start out with some interesting statistics and maybe even tell the story of Governor George Ryan (IL) commuting all the death sentences in Illinois before he left office a few years ago.  Or you could open with a couple of stories on both sides of the argument.  Good luck writing this.
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try this\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper
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You can find background information on Icarus and Daedalus and the story of The Fall of Icarus o this site:\nhttp://thanasis.com/icarus.htm
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How About a Project on Roman History.. I can help you with it. :)\n\nHenry (nukeishere@yahoo.com)
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Go to the source links I provide below.  They should be helpful and informative.
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You can probably find online that part of the Roman Empire's fall was due to the fact that it over extended itself. Others say it was Barbarian rule. However, there's a unique answer that you could give that might give you some credit for being out-side the box:\nConside Agriculture and its economy.\n\n1. Slavery\nSlaves were the backbone of the Roman republic, and Rome had increasing difficulty trying to accomodate them. THey lived in really bad conditions, and they weren't the major concentration of the Roman Repub. So what would they do? revolt. stop working. etc etc.\n2. Free Distribution of corn\nThe majority of people were supported by corn, which was given more as a right than as a privilege. It was in essence a welfare state. Parents didn't have to make any effort to feed their children, so why work? This led to decay.\n3. Soil Deterioration\nRome had a cheap food policy. And they forced farmers to pay taxes that they couldn't afford. Farmers were gang up together and plant a lot of stuff in one area to beat teh tax loopholes. But this deteriorated the soil quality. NOrth africa was once a grainary storage system for Rome, but after the Carthrage sack, it didn't work out. Land shortage was a big problem for rome, that's why they kept expanding. They stripped their forests of lumber, so they had poor weapons when it came to the Punic Wars.\n\n\nThese are just some rarely considered ideas.
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http://carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/ROME/daily.html\n\nhttp://www.thecolefamily.com/italy/pompeii/\n\ngive those a shot...Good luck!!
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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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Time to crack open the history books there...\n\nWhen the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as the state religion, they made it illegal to participate in any other religion (to control the population...that message of "render unto Ceaser..."). When new areas were conquered, the leaders, both secular and religious, were eliminated by conversion...accepting Christianity and the dominion of the Roman Empire, or dying. In order to control the conquered people, the old faiths were made illegal. \n\nNow, add in mysogeny. Males sought to control and enslave women. A woman who knew herbology and had a healing hand was a threat to male doctors' practice, or who was 'wise' was a threat to the role of the priests as givers of moral rules and advice, etc. Many of the old faiths were matriarchal, as well, and the knowledge of wise decisions, of herbology/medicine, etc. were passed woman-to-woman.\n\nWicca stems from European nature worship prior to the controls placed there by patriarchal Christianity introduced during martial conquests by the Romans (and their splinter kingdoms after the fall of the empire).\n\nAdd in the mistranslation of "do not suffer a poisoner to live" (in the Hebrew) with "do not suffer a witch to live" (that tie-in to herbology, again)...\n\nSo, modern Wiccans tap deep-rooted generational fears by Christians raised in the ancient prejudice against the "old ways." Part of it is the unfortunate choice of self-naming modern celebrants of ancient pre-Christian pantheons/nature awareness to call themselves witches.\n\nGood luck on your report!