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He concluded that Rome's Collapse was directly related to its loss of political liberties.
When the western Roman empire collapsed in 476 AD, the unifying force for most of Europe was gone. Along with the loss of the government, much of the engineering abilities and modern amenities were also lost. The Barbarians of Europe did not, for the most part, have the abilities or knowledge to build roads, aqueducts or the other marvels of the Roman Empire, which is why the period immediately after Rome's collapse is often referred to as the "Dark Ages".
This statement mean that the problem or problems came from within the empire (bad government, infighting, crumbling infrastructure, etc.) and not from the outside of the empire. Also there were 8 emperors in the 1st 100 years 29 in the last 100 years. Rome was constantly at civil war with itself while trying to fight of the "barbarians" whom it is really not appropriate to refer to as barbarians as they had control of Rome for the last 50 years or so through puppet emperors. In the end Rome was doomed to fall after Valens waged war on the Goths and Alaric sacked Rome
The fall of the Soviet Union.