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A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.

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[โ€“] humanspiral 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice one!

Who/what destroyed the Roman empire?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who/what destroyed the Roman empire?

The Romans

[โ€“] humanspiral 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Overextension of empire then?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

More like an internal decay. Like a tooth rotting from the inside out. Bigger or smaller makes little difference - it's the internal dysfunction which drives it until a crushing, agonizing collapse.

A lot of issues are involved. Government instability and lack of legitimacy. Economic decline and irrational economic behavior. Hardening of a corrupt plutocracy into an intransigent aristocracy with independent power bases. Detachment of the population from the core civic identity of the state. Immense incompetence and nepotism in a period of increasingly centralized and bureaucratic control over society. It goes on and on.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Victor Pelevin, a Russian postmodern writer, explained the dissolution of USSR a very zen way: "USSR became so perfect that it stopped existing". Same could be said about the Roman Empire.