The Collapse of the Roman Empire The Roman Empire began its reign over the Eastern World in 753 B.C when Romulus and Remus founded their great city. ... One historian said, "it has remained a vital question because each age has seen in the tale of Rome's fall, something significant and relevant to its own situation. " Some of the main and more accepted explanations for the fall of Rome include the economic collapse of the Empire, the decay of the once strong and dominating military, the division of the Empire that had grown to large and the poor Emperors that led this once great city...

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He also founded the city of Cartagena, or as it was known in Rome, Carthago Nova.7 He discovered many silver mines in Spain, which financed Carthage's war until Spain was taken by Scipio Africanus. ... Then he turned his attention to a Greek port city of Saguntum, which had made itself a "friend of Rome" and therefore Rome was supposedly obliged to defend it. ... With two armies now decimated in successive years, Rome was in a pretty pickle. ... This was the first time the two had fought, and it was not to be the last. ...

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By 216 BC the number of fights given on a single occasion had risen to twenty two.(Wilkinson p.16) In 105 BC the two consuls of the year made gladiatorial games official. ... Criminals sentenced to forced labor were often obliged to serve as gladiators, and were sentenced to three years of combat and two years in the schools. ... The number of days in each year given up to annual games and spectacles of one sort or another in the city was startlingly large, and increased continually. ...

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