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The government weakened, then law started being disobeyed.Romans and invaders destroyed crops and other things.People grew less and less food every day.Everybody was hungry.
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Plagues rampaged the streets and killed a lot of people.People also have been getting killed by invaders from other countries since civilians and roman soldiers were having a civil war.They also had an even weaker economy.
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He tried to stop the decline, so Diocletian introduced reforms to make life better.The people didn't listen.The reforms failed to make life better.
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The Huns defeated some other people.The Visigoths got scared, so they got the Roman Empire to protect them.The Visigoths got treated badly.
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In 312 A.D., Emperor Constantine was named emperor.He put out several orders.The orders were that soldiers' sons work in the army, farmers' sons work in the field of farming, and workers' sons had to work their fathers' jobs.He split the Empire in two and moved the capital into the Byzantium.He did not stop the decline of the Roman Empire.
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Constantine died in 337 A.D.Fighting broke out between the people because their was no emperor to stop them. A new emperor named Theodosius stopped the fighting.Then he split the empire.
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The Visigoths got sick of the Romans.They rebelled and defeated the Romans.It was the first time the Roman Empire was defeated in 800 years.
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The Empire split into to two empires.Their was the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire.
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The Rhine River froze, allowing the tribes to cross.The roman soldiers were to weak to make them go back.
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The leader of the Visigoths captured Rome whole.They burned the records and stole the loot.
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It took twelve days to loot and burn everything.
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The Germanic Tribe finally took over Rome and took the language, religion, and other things.
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The Western Roman empire was completely gone and the Eastern Roman Empire became known as the Byzantine Empire.
