Roman Empire Dbq

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For a very long time, the Roman Empire has been standing, but not every Empire stands for this long without falling. But to have your empire last that long you need an emperor and Rome's first emperor was Augustus, therefore, he obtained his power by defeating Marc Antony in a fight. Augustus as emperor started making forum’s and monuments in, addition, many of the Romans were talented engineers that made road/highways and aqueducts. The primary reasons for the fall of Rome were foreign invasions, diseases, and poor Roman Emperors. One of the reasons Rome fell was that there were foreign invasions happening.According to the map in Document C The Huns invaded the north side of the Roman Empire they started to invade the Goths, but then the