Rome's Poor Leadership

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To start off one reason why Rome fell cause of it's poor leadership was because of the amount of money that all the Emperors spent of very foolish things. They used the money to have chariot races, gladiator fights, slavery battles and public execution. In Which they should have used the money of the common good. If they spent it on other things the city’s population would have increased not decreased and have wars. Secondly a lot of the emperors that did not take good care of the city. Basically the rulers and kings of Rome did not address the different problems with all of the people. All of them just were taking advantage of being king and not taking their time to help out the other citizens and their problems doing good in the city. Those

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