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	The Fall of the Roman Empire
		The Roman Empire was perhaps one of the greatest civilizations in history, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean in North Africa and Spain to the Holy Land in the Middle East, and possessing many great cultural and technological achievements.
		Since lead was used in Roman plumbing and cooking vessels, some historians have cited lead poisoning as a factor in the fall, claiming that it caused brain damage and may have caused some Roman leaders to act illogically (Grout).
		The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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	Reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire
		This contributed to the overall weaknesses of the empire.
		Maintaining an army to defend the border of the Empire from barbarian attacks was a constant drain on the government.
		The empire had to begin hiring soldiers recruited from the unemployed city mobs or worse from foreign counties.
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	Remnants of the Roman Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Roman citizens in Gaul and Spain did not identify with Rome to the extent that Romanized Italians did, and many preferred poverty among the invaders to rule by Roman governors.
		With the Roman Empire as weak as it was, Attila and his brother were the most powerful men in Europe.
		The emperor of the eastern half of the empire, Leo I (not to be confused with the Bishop of Rome), appointed an emperor for the west, Nepos, and sent him with an army into the west.
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	Medieval Sourcebook: Gibbon: The Fall of the Roman Empire
		Under the succeeding reigns, the alliance of the two empires was restored; but the aid of the Oriental Romans was tardy, doubtful, and ineffectual; and the national schism of the Greeks and Latins was enlarged by the perpetual difference of language and manners, of interest, and even of religion.
		If the decline of the Roman empire was hastened by the conversion of Constantine, his victorious religion broke the violence of the fall, and mollified the ferocious temper of the conquerors.
		The deepest wounds were inflicted on the empire during the minorities of the sons and grandsons of Theodosius; and, after those incapable princes seemed to attain the age of manhood, they abandoned the church to the bishops, the state to the eunuchs, and the provinces to the Barbarians.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/gibbon-fall.html (3083 words)

	The Teaching Company - Lecture 48 Excerpt: Thoughts on the Fall of the Roman Empire
		Marxists would consider the collapse of the Roman Empire as clearly a class war; the peasantry, crushed and oppressed by years of taxation and maltreatment at the hands of the evil central government, overturned the empire and joined the barbarians.
		Any theory of the fall of the empire that superimposes modern prejudices on ancient conditions is usually largely nonsense.
		The barbarian invasions are to blame for the collapse of the Roman Empire.
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	Fall of the Roman Empire, The (1964) - Review By DAILY-REVIEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness) is nearing the end of his life.
		The main problem with The Fall of the Roman Empire is that it too often chooses to focus on spectacle over story.
		I understand the importance of establishing how big the Empire was, as it is crucial to the story, but it takes up too much screen time and ends up holding the story back.
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	The fall of the Roman Empire
		The growth of the Empire had always been based on conquest, and the Empire's economy had been fuelled by the exploitation of new colonies.
		When the Empire ran out of putative victims, its economy ceased to make sense, particularly as the mere maintenance of the Empire, with its garrisons and its bureaucrats, was so expensive.
		After the register and ID card system was introduced in the Roman empire to control its citizens, Europe took over 1500 years to start to break free from the barter/landlord economy and into the Renaissance and a money/artisan economy again.
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	Best of Gibbon's DECLINE & FALL
		Chapter 29: Final Division of the Roman Empire between the Sons of Theodosius; Reign of Arcadius and Honorius; Administration of Rufinus and Stilicho; Revolt and Defeat of Gildo in Africa (386-398 A.D.)
		The domestic assassin was instigated and protected by the Romans; and the violation of the laws of humanity and justice betrayed their secret apprehension of the weakness of the declining empire.
		Under the mild and generous influence of liberty, the Roman empire might have remained invincible and immortal; or if its excessive magnitude, and the instability of human affairs, had opposed such perpetual continuance, its vital and constituent members might have separately preserved their vigour and independence.
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	Terence Kealey on the fall of the Roman Empire \| Samizdata.net
		The empire fell because many of its citizens had emigrated to the freer, more pleasant barbarian lands (under the late empire, the population fell from 70 to 50 million) and, crucially, the invading barbarians found themselves welcomed as armies of liberation by vast numbers of oppressed people.
		History is alive and the fall of the Roman Empire is a lesson for the present which many historians have taken.
		Roman empire demise was a benefit to development, because the notion of central control was finally diminished.
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	Fall of Rome - History for Kids!
		The Romans: From Village to Empire, by Mary Boatwright, Daniel Gargola, and Richard Talbert (2004).
		The Fall of the Roman Empire, by Michael Grant (1976, reprinted 1997) 0684829568.
		Fall of the Roman Empire, by Arthur Ferrill (1986).
	www.historyforkids.org /learn/romans/history/fall.htm (795 words)

	The Fall of the Roman Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		So, when we speak of the "fall of the Roman Empire" we just mean the Western half, which fell in the mid 5th Century CE.
		The Roman economy was based on slaves, and they had an ample supply as long as the Empire was expanding.
		The Roman middle class was squeezed out of existence by excessive taxes, while the Chinese middle prospered, and their sons could even rise into the rank of Mandarin by studying for the Imperial Exams.
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	The History of Plumbing - Roman and English Legacy
		The Roman artisan plumbed pipe, soldered, installed and repaired; he worked on roofs and gutters, down to sewers and drains; in essence, everything involving supply and waste.
		Aquae Sulis was at a strategic crossroads for the Roman troops, and the natural hot springs made it a logical setting for the baths of the Emperor Claudius.
		Benedict pronounced that "to those that are well, and especially for the young, bathing shall seldom be permitted." A 4th century pilgrim to Jerusalem would brag that she had not washed her face for 18 years so as "not to disturb the holy water" used at her baptism.
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	The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
		I/ The Decline And Fall In The West (Chapters 1 - 38)
		III/ The Decline And Fall In The East (Chapters 39 - 71)
	www.ccel.org /g/gibbon/decline/home.html (84 words)

	The End of the Roman Empire Revisited
		Though Gibbon, an intellectual of the Enlightenment, and Rostovtzeff, a Russian Marxist, approached their topic from very different viewpoints, they both agreed that the "transformation" of Western civilization from the Roman Empire to the Middle Ages was a story of decline and decay.
		From the example of Sidonius Apollinaris, therefore, it is possible to suggest a correlation between the collapse of the imperial administration and the establishment of a Gothic kingdom in Gaul, with an increasing association of Roman identity with orthodox Christianity and the Catholic Church.
		Just as the Roman Empire had withdrawn from Gaul, so now Gallo-Romans were prepared to withdraw behind the edifice of the Gallic church and orthodox Christianity.
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	Gibbon: General Observations
		Honour, as well as virtue, was the principle of the republic; the ambitious citizens laboured to deserve the solemn glories of a triumph; and the ardour of the Roman youth was kindled into active emulation, as often as they beheld the domestic images of their ancestors.
		The arms of the republic, sometimes vanquished in battle, always victorious in war, advanced with rapid steps to the Euphrates, the Danube, the Rhine, and the Ocean; and the images of gold, or silver, or brass, that might serve to represent the nations and their kings, were successively broken by the iron monarchy of Rome.
		The subject nations, resigning the hope, and even the wish, of independence, embraced the character of Roman citizens; and the provinces of the West were reluctantly torn by the Barbarians from the bosom of their mother-country.
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	DVD Times - The Fall Of The Roman Empire
		If the decline of the Roman Empire is one of the great concerns of history, then an equally interesting issue is the decline of the Epic genre in Hollywood.
		Not an easy question to answer, but what makes Anthony Mann's The Fall Of The Roman Empire so fascinating is that it seems to be infused with an elegaic sadness and sense of loss, as if the genre is dying in front of us.
		This, it is suggested, was the beginning of the end for the empire since Commodus rejected Aurelius's plan for peace with the Eastern countries and, instead, embarked on a campaign to subdue all of Rome's "enemies".
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	Amazon.ca: Video: The Fall of the Roman Empire [IMPORT] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Marcus Aurelius (according the Edward Gibbon and other historians) dealt the Empire a long-term blow when he broke with tradition by choosing his only surviving son, Commodus, to be his successor, rather than following the tradition of chosing the best man for the job and officially adopting him.
		After watching the excellent "Fall of the Roman Empire," it is perfectly clear where "Gladiator" stole many of its ideas and themes.
		Stephen Boyd is fine but just more of a gentle Roman general than his wonderfully evil Messala in "Ben-Hur." Sophia Loren is luminous but for some reason her director(Anthony Mann) gets her to sleep-walk through two epics in a row and have unconvincing tears gather at her tear ducts.
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	The Fall of the Roman Empire Essay
		Essays The Fall of the Roman Empire
		There are many reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire, and all of them are related to one another.
		First the morals and values of the people were at a rapid decline towards the end of their empire.
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	DVD : The Fall of the Roman Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The second and last of Anthony Mann's historical epics is a smart, handsome spectacle of the decadence, corruption, and intrigue that tears apart the greatest empire the world has seen.
		The film is highlighted with spectacular scenes (a grandiose funeral fit for an emperor, brutal battles in the provinces as the barbarians threaten the empire, and a climactic duel to decide the destiny of Rome), which Mann weaves into the shadowy intrigue of the halls of power.
		Like his previous epic El Cid, The Fall of the Roman Empire remains one of the best of the 1960s epics: well written (and largely historically accurate) with strong performances and a consistently elegant style, but it lacks a central core and the magnetic hero of its superior predecessor.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Video: The Fall Of The Roman Empire [1964] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The film is highlighted with spectacular scenes--a grandiose funeral fit for an emperor, brutal battles in the provinces as the barbarians threaten the empire, and a climactic duel to decide the destiny of Rome--which Mann weaves into the shadowy intrigue of the halls of power.
		Like his previous epic El Cid, The Fall of the Roman Empire remains one of the best of the 1960s epics: well written (and historically accurate up to a point) with strong performances and a consistently elegant style, It lacks a central core and the magnetic hero of its superior predecessor.
		The fall of Roman empire shows motives and psycholigal moves in minds behind of power.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004R67Z (642 words)

	Roman Army: Bibliography
		Irby-Massie, G.L., "The Roman Army and the Cult of the Campestres," ZPE 113 (1996) 293-300.
		Isaac, Benjamin, "Reflections on the Roman Army in the East," The Defence of the Roman and Byzantine East ed.
		Oliva, Pavel, Pannonia and the Onset of Crisis in the Roman Empire (Prague 1962).
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/armybibl.html (15124 words)

	Bibliography of Printed Sources for Classical Studies 373
		This Bibliography is offered in support of Classical Studies 373, The Fall of the Roman Empire, an undergraduate course taught at the University of Waterloo both oncampus and in the distance mode.
		Books on the Roman world will usually be found in the 937 section of public libraries, or the DG section of university libraries.
		Manpower Shortage and the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West
	arts.uwaterloo.ca /~lneuru/courses/cl373bib.html (1683 words)

	Amazon.com: The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Despite all the relationship issues "The Fall of the Roman Empire" consistently goes with spectacle over story during its three hour run.
		There are those who think this film holds the record for most extras in a movie and while that might have been true at the time "The Fall of the Roman Empire" was made, Sir Richard Attenborough had 3,000,000 extras for the funeral scene in "Gandhi" in 1980.
		Roman Films that are Better than "Gladiator": A list by gaiuspetronius, a genuine Latin-speaker.
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	Roman Emperors - DIR--De Imperatoribus Romanis Roman History Roman Roman Empire Imperator Basileus De Imperatoribus ...
		WHAT IS is an on-line encyclopedia on the rulers of the Roman empire from Augustus (27 BC-AD 14) to Constantine XI Palaeologus (1449-1453).
		Note: Because the Virtual Catalog of Roman Coins has been reprogramed in a way that makes all its old links invalid, the DIR can only offer access to this wonderful site via the link here on the DIR home page.
		Note: All line drawings of Roman coins for emperors before the fall of Rome in 476 A.D. are reprinted from H. Cohen, Description historique des monnaies frappées sous l'Empire romain, Paris, 1880-1892.
	www.roman-emperors.org (597 words)

	Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
		"Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and the same freedom of intercourse which extended the vices, diffused likewise the improvements of social life."
		He extended to all the inhabitants of the Roman world the benefits of a free and equal toleration; and the only hardship which he inflicted on the Christians was to deprive them of the power of tormenting their fellow-subjects, whom they stigmatised with the odious titles of idolaters and heretics."
		But in the decline of the empire, when every principle of health and life had been exhausted, the tardy application of this partial remedy was incapable of producing any important or salutary effects."
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	LookSmart - Search results for "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1 Edward Gibbon" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gibbon's massive work chronicles the decay of the Roman Empire in Italy and throughout the Western territories.
		Read chapter 34 from the classic book "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," by Edward Gibbons which profiles the violent Huns.
		Medieval Sourcebook presents chapter 38 from Edward Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." Focuses on the western empire.
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	Centre for Roman Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Centre of Roman Studies was set up in 1995 to promote inter-disciplinary research in the study of ancient Roman culture and its reception in the more recent past.
		The Centre has held a Seminar Series in 1996-1997, on The Roman Landscape, in 1997-1999, on Roman Art in Context, and in 1999-2000 and 2000-2001.
		The MAs in Ancient Art and The City of Rome are run jointly in the Classics and Archaeology Departments, and the latter also at the British School at Rome.
	www.rdg.ac.uk /Roman (404 words)

	The Fall of Rome?
		The admission of INFERIOR RACES to the citizenship lowered the vigor of the Pure Roman Stock.
		Abandonment of the old religion, which had given moral strength to the Roman People [Religious] Widespread HOMOSEXUALITY among the upper classes led to a decline in the birth rate among aristocrats, thereby reducing the available pool of leadership manpower.
		The bulk of the inhabitants of the Empire failed to share in the incredible prosperity, remaining impoverished and restive.
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/fallrome.html (520 words)

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