Why Rome Fell (a Condensed Version)
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Why Rome Fell (a condensed version)
The sun had long ago set, the newborn moon peeked out from behind a
scattering of thin, high clouds. From a vantage point atop one of seven hills I
could see glimpses of how this great city must once have looked. The mammoth
buildings seem to shed their long ye ....
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.... the word confusing. According to David Jordan, ‘the causes for
Rome's fall march across the pages of the Decline and Fall, seemingly without
pattern, and seemingly unrelated to each other. This quote taken from the
seventh chapter of Jordan's Gibbon and his Roman Empire sum up my feelings
concerning the work; however, I will attempt to show some of Gibbon's Causes for
this decline.
Two of Gibbon's causes are the political blunders of its emperors and
their search for personal glory ....
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