Introduction to the Roman Empire

Introduction to the Roman Empire

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  • Date Submitted: 11/17/2008 11:06 AM
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Roman Empire Why did the Roman Empire fail and not became the example of the perfect empire? As we know, the Roman Empire was one of the most important civilizations of all times. It is compared with the Greek Civilization and the Chinese. It is true that it is very important it gave apportions to the next generations from there the roman languages take origin and contribution of the civil/human rights and jurisdiction. "The benefits of law and policy, of trade and manufactures, of arts and sciences, are more solid and permanent" . But the Roman Empire only last five centuries. It is really a short period of time to be considered as a big empire, but the explanation of the extinction is that in the last years the civilization exceeded limits of pleasures and power. The Romans took a lot of culture from the Greeks, a civilization that is consider very important because from there they took a lot of Philosophers that changed the perspective of nature since 500 A.D or more. They took the way of theater the styles of acting only adapting it to their own style but very similar; they also took the mythology of Greeks the name of the Gods were changed but the Roman Empire was starting to create their own personality. The civilization was starting to have a bad organization in the sense that there was bad economic administration by the government and government power was weak in those places because the empire had expanded. It is considered that the more they rule as territory, they could lose organization more easy because the government has to be spread more where the empire ruled. Also a big factor that produces to lose the control of the government was the threat of the Germanic invasion that produces the emperors to use more money for the army of defense. Edward Gibbon in Roman Empire in the West said "As the happiness of a future life is the great object of religion, we may hear, without surprise or scandal, that the introduction, or at least the abuse, of...

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