From a small republic, Rome grew into the greatest empire ever known, lasting for over six hundred years. Stretching from London to Balghad, Rome was known to project its power utilizing their professional army and creating the model at western civilization; unfortunately, when the empire begins to falter it collapses with a shocking speed. Due to the Great Migration It takes only one hundred years for the imperial edifice of Rome to completely vanish. These Barbarians which is what Romans referred the German military to, were able to outsmart the Romans. The composition of the army changed from a citizen militia to a professional army, to a …show more content…
This period was called the dark ages because must people now relied on religion and superstition. The government was corrupt, in a 50 year time period there were over twenty five emperors assassinated. Being an emperor became a joke. Emperors were becoming lazy, greedy, disobedient to the Consol, and simply made their own selfish and unwise choices based off their religion or superstition. The military were usually loyal solider but after being defeated they were only loyal to the money. The military would only follow those who paid them good money. Romans were also becoming lazy, they dependent more on slave while they starved for money but they did not want to work for the money. Citizens took all the time for work for find ways to get money for others. From this time period the empire bonds snapped and left no trace of the bonds anywhere. The Romans were now the total opposite of what it once