117 BC was the year when the Emperor Trajan died. His succession was sooth. Trajan had already conquered Mesopotamia (Iraq) which he wrested from the Persians and the Roman Empire has reached its greatest extent.
Basically, the western part of the Roman empire was challenged by pressured on their borders. Various Germanic tribes were looking for new places to settle as they, themselves were being pushed out of their traditional lands. This population shift caused pressures on the borders that the weakened Roman army found difficult to control. The reference of Western Roman empire was due to the accession of the emperor Diocletian who divided the empire into East and West. As mentioned by the earlier contributor, this was basically a military decision made to better help defend both the east and western parts of the empire.
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The eastern part of the Roman empire was known as the Byzantine empire.The eastern part of the Roman empire was known as the Byzantine empire.The eastern part of the Roman empire was known as the Byzantine empire.The eastern part of the Roman empire was known as the Byzantine empire.The eastern part of the Roman empire was known as the Byzantine empire.The eastern part of the Roman empire was known as the Byzantine empire.The eastern part of the Roman empire was known as the Byzantine empire.The eastern part of the Roman empire was known as the Byzantine empire.The eastern part of the Roman empire was known as the Byzantine empire.
The Byzantine empire was the Roman empire, merely its eastern counterpart.
The Roman Empire was a political organization, not a person.
The empire became too big and difficult to defend. There were attacks in various parts of the vast frontiers of the empire in Europe. In the east there were repeated wars with the Persians. The Roman army became overstretched.
the size of their empire was difficult to defend against barbarian invasions.
The Romans stopped expanding their empire because it had grown too big and had become difficult to defend.
It was actually not that easy to defend the empire as the barbarians (Barbarians is not a specific type of empire, it is just a Roman term for any-one not of Roman stature) would often attack the empire, but what would make it a little bit easy to defend is that the Roman empire had MASSIVE armies. Each army consited of a couple legions, each legion about a thousand soldiers.
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There was more land and it was harder for the emperor to defend
the roman army was weak so it could not defend the empire from barbarians who attacked it in the twilight of Rome (Rome was captured in 476 AD by a barbarian named Odacer)
It probably got too big to defend its borders.
The Roman empire became so big that it became difficult to defend from both continuous on and off wars with the Persians and from pressures by peoples who leaved north of it in Europe.However, this in a relative factor. Lack of political cohesion made the western part of the Roman Empire unable to respond to the invasions by the Germanic peoples effectively. The eastern part of the Roman Empire was not affected by these invasions and continued to exist for nearly 1,000 years.
When the Roman armies were defeated, the barbarians overran and sacked Rome.
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Basically, the western part of the Roman empire was challenged by pressured on their borders. Various Germanic tribes were looking for new places to settle as they, themselves were being pushed out of their traditional lands. This population shift caused pressures on the borders that the weakened Roman army found difficult to control. The reference of Western Roman empire was due to the accession of the emperor Diocletian who divided the empire into East and West. As mentioned by the earlier contributor, this was basically a military decision made to better help defend both the east and western parts of the empire.