How could the Empire fall?

How could the Empire fall?

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Every Empire falls. It's in their nature.

Their entire economy was built around plundering conquered land. So when they stopped expanding, they tried to keep paying for the government by printing money. Big mistake.

Their poop smell too bad.

Devalued their currency and outsourced their military.

Not enemies at the gate but corruption and decadence as well as weak traitors and leaders is what kills empires.

Aye we've had one Rome, but what about second rome?

It didn't, it just changed profession.

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Shitty Nordic savages

Slaves became the majority. Empire facilitates mass migration. Guess why many Italians don't seem to actually be whites?

Brown people wanted what the white man built. As with every collapsing Empire, from the Greek city-states to present.

It's easier to wait, and take, than it is to build. And white man doesn't learn his history. How many of you fags have read the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, or the Codex Regius even? And that's recent history. How many have read Mein Kampf, or Das Capital to get an understanding of what happened just last century?

>How
Germans of course. They ruin everything nice.
But also women. And lead.

Roman Catholicism cucked out and sold out it's base for brown people. Now the asians became Muslim and the islanders became evangelical Christians so poor old RCC is left turning to Social Justice making it a catechism of faith.

Like so.

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It's too much land and people to administer effectively. Every year it takes more resources for less efficient administration.

On top of that is that rampant corruption. The transfer of power is always a cluster fuck, because the guy in charge wants to give power to his idiot kid who is almost always less effective, which leads to coups and civil war.

The composition of the army also had a lot to do with it. At a certain point there were no Romans in the military and it was only provincials. Traditional values were lost. The barbarians becoming more confederated.

There are a laundry list of things that contributed to the fall of the empire. Honestly though Rome lasted way longer than practically any other in history, so the question isn't really why did it fall but why did it last so long.

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How could the Empire fall?

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>Their entire economy was built around plundering conquered land
you have no idea what you're talking about.

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Germans is the name, autism their domain

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>sold out it's base for brown people
you do realize that the pagan roman empire was literally the most culturally and ethinically diverse empire in the history of the world which allowed virtually any shitskin to settle there, right?

okay this is epic

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>Guess why many Italians don't seem to actually be whites?
Wow! I didn't realize Nordic savages weren't white

After Carthage was defeated, no one outside the empire could really hurt them. So they devolved into infighting over the huge amount of wealth the empire could sustain.

They started respecting women.

see Also Brits. Everytime Europe tries to unite they are there to throw a wrench in the works.

Jews/satan enabled women. Look at what's happening to the west now.

Decadence leads to political power for women which leads to ruin. Then hard times breed strong men and the cycle repeats.

true as the life itself

Illegal immigration

>At a certain point there were no Romans in the military and it was only provincials.

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Germans were a part of the Empire from its inception, Germans were like Equites, Elites.

> Fucking low IQ normie retards.

>Brown people wanted what the white man built.

You know Rome was sacked by Germanics right?

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Hadrian had Antinous killed and the God Twink wrecked the Empire in revenge. Just goes to show you that you should never hurt your twink.

Imagine believing that. Germans were seen as lower than Egyptians and Romans fucking hated gypos.

>You know Rome was sacked by Germanics right?
Derp de derp de dumb.


Rome was abandoned by then, and not even the capital. It was just a a ceremonial capital, a complete shithole.

Romans most certainly didn't hate Egyptians. They were amused by them, maybe. But they let them have a large degree of autonomy for a very long time.

Bullshit, after the Civil War called the Year of the Four Emperors, the Germans fell out with the Romans, and lost their prestige. Before that they were elites, who do you think invaded Britain? Do you know where the invasion of Britain was launched from? Germania.

What book?

germans were slaves you fucking brainlet

>Northern France is Germany
wew

Mongol empire was better.
Still dismayed about what they did too russia

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Horrible mismanagement

>Equites

Just stick to digging potatos

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Low IQ retards.

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Jews, (((Christcucks))) and Mudslimes. Just like today.

yes this modern painting sure told me

>Germans were just below the senators in ancient Rome
AHAHHAHA

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Allying with Stalin for the International Jews and getting murderraped in the process.

Roman soldiers invaded Britain, not Germanic mercenaries. If Germanics were so great how come they needed Rome to clear out all the Celts for them and then collapse before they could expand. Germanics are the most overrated European people.

Are you on an Italian proxy or is education just that bad there? The Germans were the Barbarians, the Visigoths. They came late, weren’t wanted in by the population at large, and eventually destroyed the empire.
Thankfully Italy has cucked Germany multiple times since then as some sort of perpetual karmic retribution.

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It fucked with Germans
Got Germed

It's da j00s!

Completely fucked economy in the 3rd and 5th centuries

Western Empire especially couldn't afford the troops needed to keep the Rhine and upper Danube frontiers properly defended

Shitty emperors too often (eg. Honorius, 3rd century tyrants, Valentinian II and III, Stilcho/Ricimer)

Just hijack it

I said they were like Equites, they didn't have to pay taxes, See the Batavians.

Also See Ubii
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubii

>who do you think invaded Britain?

Romans

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Germans didn’t start WW1. Slavs did

Lead poisoning. Don't drink wine with lead in it kids.

>burger edukayshun

> Julius Caesar, who formed an alliance with them in 55 BC in order to launch attacks across the river. They were transported in 39 BC by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa to the west bank

> Together with the Batavi, the Ubii furnished soldiers for the Germanic bodyguard, the personal bodyguard of the early Roman emperors.

Literally ELITES warriors.

AHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHHA

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im surprised the empire survived the 3rd century

And? Byzantines had the Varangian Guard. That proves fucking nothing what so ever.
People always employed warriors from far away since they weren't interested in domestic politics and would often be loyal only to the one who employed them.
They weren't fucking roman noble-tier brainlet.

Many factors :
First of all, the economy.
During its conquests, Rome became a dominant power that relied more and more on conquest, and plundering the newly conquered land. Next to this, the local economy, based mainly on agriculture declined.
We dont really know when the transition fully happened, but i guess the tide turned really during the 2nd century AD. (yes, during this «Golden century», the economy was already doomed). Not the economy of the whole empire tho, but the economy of Italy. As there was no more conquest, the Roman state couldnt afford to maintain itself ad vitam eternam. And because Rome is an empire, when the heart of the empire is beginning to decline, so fall the Empire.
And that's the reason why the eastern part maintained : Anatolia, Syria, Egypt were insanely richer than Gaul, or Spain, or Illyricum, and began to overthrow Italy.

Add to a declining economy a growing bureaucracy during the «Dominat», and everything is falling apart.

Then, what i think about is the cost of a huge army which required more and more money to maintain. And of course, the decrease of its quality, its discipline, its equipment.

Then of course, the Germanic invasion of the 4th and 5th century which gave the final shot to a dying western roman empire.

And we can talk about other things, like the demographic crisis the empire faced after the plague of the 160's.
We can talk about the moral decline. Italians didnt want to become legionnary. (the same thing happened in Gaul). They had to rely on barbaric men massively during the end of the 4th century.

The primary method of upward mobility in the Roman Empire was by giving retired legionaries conquered land. Once that ended and the legions were no longer supported by pillaging the incentive for the common person to join the legion ended, the empire stagnated, and over time the quality of the army got so low that it could no longer defend its boarders. This is by no means the only factor but you are in fact the dumbass who has no idea what he is talking about.

>And? Byzantines had the Varangian Guard.

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Poles confirmed subhumand and ignorant retards. What is new. There is so much wrong with this post and so full of lies, where to even begin?

First of all it were Germanics, not DUH GERMANZ, which literally includes all of modern European nation states. Visigoths in Spain, Anglo Saxons in Britain, Franks in France and West-Germany, Saxons in East Germany, Dacians, Goths and Ostro-Goths in the Balkans. Muh Germans is a disgusting lie and "muh gas babies tier".

Secondly, there was a continuation under Germanic Emperors and a transition into late antiquite. Factually it did not collapse at all.

Thirldy, it did finally "collapse" hundreds of years later during the Islamic expansion, which led to Muslim sea raiders - the first castles were built in response to them - and which lead to the collapse of med trade and the empoverishment of the Western part of the former Roman empire.

Fourth: the life style due to the overtaxation and prevention of freedom of movement and binding to the great land estates had effectively already created the organization of medieval feudalism. With an oversized, over taxing beaurocracy and overpaid army on top. When it "collapsed" the unnecessary was cut from the elemental.

Fifth, there were Dozens, if not hundreds of contributing factors for the decline of the Roman Empire and there was no actual collapse but rather a transition into the Byzantine Empire in the East, which actually did reconquer many parts of the empire and at one time reuinted the west and east even entirely, but got driven back by the Muslims, and the Frankish Kingom then Holy Roman Empire in the West.

Fucking retard board.

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>What is a Lombard.
I hate to break it to you there bucko but the Germans kinda did cucked the Italians in the fullest sense of the term.

>Nordic warriors employed as the bodyguards of the Byzantine Emperors are somehow different than germanic warriors employed as the bodyguards of the Roman consul.
wew

Slave economy hampered the Empire's growth and stability.
Their economy could never match the size of the Empire leading to imbalance between provinces.
When the Empire split between East and West, the majority of the Empire's wealth and foodstuffs was concentrated in the East leading to the weakening and eventual collapse of the West.

not enough finns

Wow, I thought you couldn't get any dumber, and how is this relevant to the Germans forming the Empire with the Romans?

>Germans forming the Empire with the Romans?
AHHAHAHAHHAHAH

Kikery and an obsession with bullying the Krauts

>Julius Caesar hired personal bodyguards from a *foreign* land that would be loyal to him.
>therefore, the Germans helped form the empire
wew lad.

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Here you go polish friend hopefully you like it

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Here a video may dumb down things for you
> youtube.com/watch?v=rfJSYgUMJxg

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Slave labor, public works spending, currency debasement, over-franchising...

It didn't. It's called the "Holy Spirit" and most of the world was Christian for some time.

>Some autistic history boi records a Youtube video on a particular thing in history.
>Gives it hyperbolic title
>video gets 60k views
>Some potato nigger decides that the Germans are responsible for the Roman Empire

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>400 germanic cavalry was more important in the success of Caesar than all the legions he had, all the sponsoring Crassus did and having competent men at his side such as Anthony and Labienus.
potato stop

There are two ways to achieve something: work hard for it, or take it from somebody else. People will always try to just take shit if it's easier than working.

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The video was for your benefit kike.

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Get some help.

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None of those occupied lands are "British" except for the white colonies of Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. Had they just cut off the tumors of India and Africa earlier the British Empire may have lasted longer. Wealth was extracted FROM Britain and sent to India and Africa, not the other way around. Once the Empire fell the productivity and wealth of the average citizen actually started increasing.

> implying Pompei and the Romans didn't flee as far east as possible, when Caesar returned not decimated, but fully bloated with Warriors.

>400 germanic cavalry more important than 5000 strong legion he brought over the Rubicon.
fucking christ, just stop

You can't read, so what is a guy to do?

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>implying Pompey and the Republicans fled because of 400 German horse bois instead of 3 trained Roman Legions.

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How? Watch America and learn.

And who did Pompei look to recruit, to fight those legions? Celtic Cavalry. Because you fight fire with fire.

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This is correct, they basically pissed it away.
"Good times make weak men."
Dont forget slaves and shitskins everywhere.

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Can you stop this victim mentality? You are just like fucking jews. Nobody cares. Act like man. Muh germans. Muh World War. If you wouldn't act like idiots, you wouldn't be in this shit.

>Mercenaries are responsible for the exploits of their employers.
This means:
1)The Greeks built the Persian Empire because Cyrus used Greek mercs.
2)The British built France because of the White Company
3)The Papacy is actually a Swiss invention
4)The Spanish and Germans were the ones who actually slowed the decline of Byzantium
etc.

The Empire will never fall, it will get only enriched by diversity. What are you some kind of republican bigot? #DiversityIsOurStrength #NotAllGoths #VandalPride #BlondIsBeautiful #KillRomey

>Legions raised in Campania, Lucania and Apulia and then later on in Greece and Macedon were actually celtic cavalry
nigga

topkek

Germanics flooded the Empire and since Christianity said you can't kill people indiscriminately because you need to try to get them to follow your LARP first or because God will take care of corruption if you just be a good goy and tolerate it until you die the Germanics were able to overwhelm an increasingly bluepilled and infighting population, then they sat around for a few hundred years LARPing after they smashed and raped everything in sight and started LARPing as the Romans way after they killed or inseminated them out of existence.

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So if i thin my gold coins today to slivers 1/20th of gold coins I had 200 years ago, their value would remain the same?

>Spöke to Finn
>Challenge him to fight
>Look him in The eye
>Cool
>Resilient he is
>He wants to fight me
>But looses
>Begins to call Me Nordic King
>Great Leader
>Immediatelly then i begun to Understand The importance of The finnish race
>How great companions they are
>As dog to man
>He spoke to me using Big words
>Defending my honour
>Upholding it
>I came again to realize how much i love this people
>The trustfull minister
>Men of truth down to Earth
>A second in command

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