Barbarians In The Roman Empire
Hannibal, leader of a Germanic Tribe
Marcus Aurelius
The Roman Empire declined and fell because of politics. However, the empire was strong at a point until the third century crisis happened. The last emperor before the crisis began was Marcus Aurelius, and the empire went from peaceful and Pax Romana to catastrophe and they called it “the anarchy.” There were both internal and external conflicts throughout the empire. The external problems were the violations of the borders by the Germanic tribes and, “full-scale war with Sassanian Persian Empire on eastern border,” (Nardo). There were also leadership conflicts because if barbarians were to attack, there wouldn’t be a leader to make order. Since barbarians did attack, it made Rome weak when
Marcus Aurelius
The Roman Empire declined and fell because of politics. However, the empire was strong at a point until the third century crisis happened. The last emperor before the crisis began was Marcus Aurelius, and the empire went from peaceful and Pax Romana to catastrophe and they called it “the anarchy.” There were both internal and external conflicts throughout the empire. The external problems were the violations of the borders by the Germanic tribes and, “full-scale war with Sassanian Persian Empire on eastern border,” (Nardo). There were also leadership conflicts because if barbarians were to attack, there wouldn’t be a leader to make order. Since barbarians did attack, it made Rome weak when