Causes For The Fall of the Roman Empire :: The Fall of the Roman Empire

What major events led to the eventual decline and fall of the Roman imperium? Categorized between home(a) and external factors with broad reasoning, doesnt bring itself to just a few events as the cause for the actual fall. From the internal factors socio-economic problems and political corruption with the emperors and senate with their selfish, indulgence lifestyles with gladiator games being a major expense from the coffers, moral decline impacted the richest Romans with immorality, various outlandish informal behaviors, gambling on most any activities and public lewd/ sexual acts in the Colosseum. Education became only for the rich and usually only males. The base standards of ethics and values were lost with total disregard of human and sentient being life, cheap slave labor lead to major unemployment for the working break plebeians that stressed the continued divide from the rich patricians. From the external factors Constant wars and cloggy military spending, the gr eat Roman army was excessively expensive, over-stretched trying to financial support the experienced warriors, recruiting more than and more soldiers then turning to hiring mercenaries and barbarians. With the adding of more soldiers from conquered lands, those barbarians became more like Romans after a short time and less open to fight other barbarians from other countries as a result. With the army stretched switch off at all the borders, when an issue grew it could become overwhelming quickly as with the Visogoths, once they were allowed to settle on the south side of the Danube, poverty victuals conditions and starvation led them to attack, then move to sack the city of Rome. past there were the earthy disasters such as famine, earthquakes and plagues. With influx of barbarians and many newcomers from over-run countries, the apocalypse of serious sickness, transferring of plagues and lack of consistent medical care perpetuated all natural disasters many times over.