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This 5 page paper considers some of the factors that led to the fall of the Roman Empire, and argues that while none might have brought down the Empire by itself, combined, and coming quickly as they did, made the collapse inevitable. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the fall of Rome was inevitable. This paper looks at some of the factors that may be said to have led to the collapse, and whether or not it was
necessarily inevitable. Discussion As noted above, Edward Gibbons book has been considered the standard for decades, but newer scholarship, particularly that of Peter Heather, suggests that Gibbon was wrong and
that the fall of the Roman Empire was not necessarily inevitable. Heather has been doing research for 20 years to find a way to explain the fall of the Roman
Empire, and has revised "Gibbons grand narrative" (Okamura 489). Heather limits himself to the Western (European) half of the Empire, which fell approximately 1,000 years before the East, begging the
question if we can consider that the "fall of the Roman Empire" as Gibbon described it is truly accurate (Okamura). That is, is it possible to say that the Empire
fell when only the Western half collapsed? Be that as it may, Heather agrees with the traditional viewpoint that identifies the fall as occurring in 476 CE, "when Odovacar
deposed the Western Roman emperor, Romulus" (Okamura 489). But here Heather deviates from Gibbon, and says that it was not evident that the Empire was in decline "from 180 CE
onward" but that both society and the state continued to function well, in spite of military defeats, "until the end of the fourth century" (Okamura 489). In the second part
of his book, Heather describes the research that has been done on the Germanic peoples in the last 40 years, and argues that when the Germanic tribes "migrated westward in
376-380 and 405-408 in advance of Hunnic expansion, they constituted a greater military threat to Rome than had their less-organized ancestors centuries before" (Okamura 489). In describing the actual
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