210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire

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*From The Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1911.
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'''[[The Introduction of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon]]'''
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*Abolition of gods  
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*[[Abolition of gods]]
*Abolition of rights  
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*[[Abolition of rights]]
*Absence of character  
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*[[Absence of character]]
*Absolutism  
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*[[Absolutism]]
*Agrarian question  
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*[[Agrarian question]]
*Agrarian slavery  
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*[[Agrarian slavery]]
*Anarchy  
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*[[Anarchy]]
*Anti-Germanism  
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*[[Anti-Germanism ]]
*Apathy  
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*[[Apathy ]]
*Aristocracy  
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*[[Aristocracy]]
*Asceticism  
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*[[Asceticism]]
*Attack of the Germans  
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*[[Attack of the Germans]]
*Attack of the Huns  
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*[[Attack of the Huns ]]
*Attack of riding nomads  
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*[[Attack of riding nomads]]
*Backwardness in science  
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*[[Backwardness in science ]]
*Bankruptcy  
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*[[Bankruptcy ]]
*Barbarization  
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*[[Barbarization]]
*Bastardization  
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*[[Bastardization]]
*Blockage of land by large landholders  
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*[[Blockage of land by large landholders]]
*Blood poisoning  
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*[[Blood poisoning ]]
*Bolshevization  
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*[[Bolshevization]]
*Bread and circuses  
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*[[Bread and circuses]]
*Bureaucracy  
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*[[Bureaucracy]]
*Byzantinism  
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*[[Byzantinism]]
*Capillarite sociale  
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*[[Capillarite sociale]]
*Capitalism  
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*[[Capitalism]]
*Capitals, change of  
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*[[Capitals, change of]]
*Caste system  
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*[[Caste system]]
*Celibacy  
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*[[Celibacy]]
*Centralization  
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*[[Centralization]]
*Childlessness  
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*[[Childlessness]]
*Christianity  
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*[[Christianity]]
*Citizenship, granting of  
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*[[Citizenship, granting of]]
*Civil war  
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*[[Civil war]]
*Climatic deterioration  
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*[[Climatic deterioration]]
*Communism  
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*[[Communism ]]
*Complacency  
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*[[Complacency]]
*Concatenation of misfortunes  
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*[[Concatenation of misfortunes]]
*Conservatism  
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*[[Conservatism ]]
*Corruption  
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*[[Corruption ]]
*Cosmopolitanism  
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*[[Cosmopolitanism]]
*Crisis of legitimacy  
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*[[Crisis of legitimacy]]
*Culinary excess  
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*[[Culinary excess]]
*Cultural neurosis  
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*[[Cultural neurosis]]
*Decentralization  
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*[[Decentralization]]
*Decline of Nordic character  
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*[[Decline of Nordic character]]
*Decline of the cities  
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*[[Decline of the cities]]
*Decline of the Italian population  
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*[[Decline of the Italian population]]
*Deforestation  
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*[[Deforestation]]
*Degeneration  
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*[[Degeneration ]]
*Degeneration of the intellect  
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*[[Degeneration of the intellect]]
*Demoralization  
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*[[Demoralization ]]
*Depletion of mineral resources  
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*[[Depletion of mineral resources]]
*Despotism  
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*[[Despotism ]]
*Destruction of environment  
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*[[Destruction of environment ]]
*Destruction of peasantry  
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*[[Destruction of peasantry]]
*Destruction of political process  
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*[[Destruction of political process ]]
*Destruction of Roman influence  
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*[[Destruction of Roman influence]]
*Devastation  
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*[[Devastation]]
*Differences in wealth  
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*[[Differences in wealth]]
*Disarmament  
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*[[Disarmament]]
*Disillusion with stated  
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*[[Disillusion with stated]]
*Division of empire  
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*[[Division of empire]]
*Division of labor  
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*[[Division of labor]]
*Earthquakes  
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*[[Earthquakes]]
*Egoism  
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*[[Egoism]]
*Egoism of the state  
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*[[Egoism of the state]]
*Emancipation of slaves  
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*[[Emancipation of slaves]]
*Enervation  
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*[[Enervation ]]
*Epidemics  
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*[[Epidemics]]
  
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*Equal rights, granting of  
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*[[Equal rights, granting of]]
*Eradication of the best  
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*[[Eradication of the best]]
*Escapism  
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*[[Escapism ]]
*Ethnic dissolution  
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*[[Ethnic dissolution]]
*Excessive aging of population  
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*[[Excessive aging of population ]]
*Excessive civilization  
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*[[Excessive civilization]]
*Excessive culture  
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*[[Excessive culture]]
*Excessive foreign infiltration  
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*[[Excessive foreign infiltration]]
*Excessive freedom  
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*[[Excessive freedom ]]
*Excessive urbanization  
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*[[Excessive urbanization]]
*Expansion  
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*[[Expansion]]
*Exploitation  
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*[[Exploitation ]]
*Fear of life  
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*[[Fear of life]]
*Female emancipation  
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*[[Female emancipation]]
*Feudalization  
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*[[Feudalization]]
*Fiscalism  
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*[[Fiscalism]]
*Gladiatorial system  
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*[[Gladiatorial system ]]
*Gluttony  
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*[[Gluttony ]]
*Gout  
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*[[Gout ]]
*Hedonism  
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*[[Hedonism ]]
*Hellenization  
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*[[Hellenization ]]
*Heresy  
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*[[Heresy ]]
*Homosexuality  
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*[[Homosexuality]]
*Hothouse culture  
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*[[Hothouse culture]]
*Hubris  
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*[[Hubris]]
*Hypothermia  
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*[[Hypothermia ]]
*Immoderate greatness
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*[[Immoderate greatness]]  
 
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*[[Imperialism ]]
General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West
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*[[Impotence]]
by Edward Gibbon
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*[[Impoverishment]]
 
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*[[Imprudent policy toward buffer states]]
[["The rise of a city, which swelled into an Empire, may deserve, as a singular prodigy, the reflection of a philosophic mind. But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident had removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight. The story of its ruin is simple and obvious; and, instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. The victorious legions, who, in distant wars, acquired the vices of strangers and mercenaries, first oppressed the freedom of the republic, and afterwards violated the majesty of the purple. The emperors, anxious for their personal safety and the public peace, were reduced to the base expedient of corrupting the discipline which rendered them alike formidable to their sovereign and to the enemy; the vigour of the military government was relaxed, and finally dissolved, by the partial institutions of Constantine; and the Roman world was overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians."]]
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*[[Inadequate educational system ]]
 
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*[[Indifference ]]
*Imperialism  
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*[[Individualism ]]
*Impotence  
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*[[Indoctrination ]]
*Impoverishment  
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*[[Inertia]]
*Imprudent policy toward buffer states  
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*[[Inflation]]
*Inadequate educational system  
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*[[Intellectualism ]]
*Indifference  
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*[[Integration, weakness of]]
*Individualism  
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*[[Irrationality]]
*Indoctrination  
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*[[Jewish influence]]
*Inertia  
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*[[Lack of leadership]]
*Inflation  
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*[[Lack of male dignity ]]
*Intellectualism  
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*[[Lack of military recruits ]]
*Integration, weakness of  
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*[[Lack of orderly imperial succession]]
*Irrationality  
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*[[Lack of qualified workers]]
*Jewish influence  
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*[[Lack of rainfall]]
*Lack of leadership  
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*[[Lack of religiousness]]
*Lack of male dignity  
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*[[Lack of seriousness ]]
*Lack of military recruits  
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*[[Large landed properties]]
*Lack of orderly imperial succession  
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*[[Lead poisoning]]
*Lack of qualified workers  
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*[[Lethargy ]]
*Lack of rainfall  
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*[[Leveling, cultural]]
*Lack of religiousness  
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*[[Leveling, social ]]
*Lack of seriousness  
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*[[Loss of army discipline]]
*Large landed properties  
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*[[Loss of authority ]]
*Lead poisoning  
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*[[Loss of energy ]]
*Lethargy  
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*[[Loss of instincts ]]
*Leveling, cultural  
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*[[Loss of population]]
*Leveling, social  
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*[[Luxury ]]
*Loss of army discipline  
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*[[Malaria ]]
*Loss of authority  
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*[[Marriages if convenience]]
*Loss of energy  
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*[[Mercenary system]]
*Loss of instincts  
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*[[Mercury damage ]]
*Loss of population  
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*[[Militarism ]]
*Luxury  
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*[[Monetary economy]]
*Malaria  
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*[[Monetary greed ]]
*Marriages if convenience  
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*[[Money, shortage of]]
*Mercenary system  
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*[[Moral decline]]
*Mercury damage  
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*[[Moral idealism ]]
*Militarism  
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*Monetary economy  
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*Monetary greed  
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*Money, shortage of  
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*Moral decline  
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*Moral idealism  
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*Moral materialism  
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*[[Moral materialism ]]
*Mystery religions  
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*[[Mystery religions]]
*Nationalism of Rome's subjects  
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*[[Nationalism of Rome's subjects]]
*Negative selection  
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*[[Negative selection ]]
*Orientalization  
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*[[Orientalization ]]
*Outflow of gold  
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*[[Outflow of gold ]]
*Over refinement  
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*[[Over refinement]]
*Pacifism  
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*[[Pacifism ]]
*Paralysis of will  
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*[[Paralysis of will]]
*Paralyzation  
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*[[Paralyzation ]]
*Parasitism  
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*[[Parasitism ]]
*Particularism  
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*[[Particularism ]]
*Pauperism  
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*[[Pauperism ]]
*Plagues  
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*[[Plagues]]
*Pleasure seeking  
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*[[Pleasure seeking ]]
*Plutocracy  
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*[[Plutocracy ]]
*Polytheism  
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*[[Polytheism ]]
*Population pressure  
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*[[Population pressure ]]
*Precociousness  
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*[[Precociousness ]]
*Professional army  
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*[[Professional army ]]
*Proletarization  
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*[[Proletarization ]]
*Prosperity  
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*[[Prosperity ]]
*Prostitution  
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*[[Prostitution ]]
*Psychoses  
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*[[Psychoses ]]
*Public baths  
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*[[Public baths]]
*Racial degeneration  
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*[[Racial degeneration ]]
*Racial discrimination  
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*[[Racial discrimination ]]
*Racial suicide  
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*[[Racial suicide]]
*Rationalism  
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*[[Rationalism ]]
*Refusal of military service  
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*[[Refusal of military service ]]
*Religious struggles and schisms  
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*[[Religious struggles and schisms]]
*Rentier mentality  
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*[[Rentier mentality]]
*Resignation  
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*[[Resignation ]]
*Restriction to profession  
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*[[Restriction to profession]]
*Restriction to the land  
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*[[Restriction to the land]]
*Rhetoric  
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*[[Rhetoric ]]
*Rise of uneducated masses  
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*[[Rise of uneducated masses]]
*Romantic attitudes to peace  
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*[[Romantic attitudes to peace]]
*Ruin of middle class  
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*[[Ruin of middle class]]
*Rule of the world  
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*[[Rule of the world ]]
*Semieducation  
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*[[Semieducation ]]
*Sensuality  
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*[[Sensuality ]]
*Servility  
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*[[Servility ]]
*Sexuality  
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*[[Sexuality ]]
*Shamelessness  
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*[[Shamelessness ]]
*Shifting of trade routes  
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*[[Shifting of trade routes]]
*Slavery  
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*[[Slavery ]]
*Slavic attacks  
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*[[Slavic attacks ]]
*Socialism (of the state)  
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*[[Socialism (of the state) ]]
*Soil erosion  
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*[[Soil erosion ]]
*Soil exhaustion  
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*[[Soil exhaustion ]]
*Spiritual barbarism  
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*[[Spiritual barbarism]]
*Stagnation  
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*[[Stagnation ]]
*Stoicism  
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*[[Stoicism ]]
*Stress  
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*[[Stress ]]
*Structural weakness  
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*[[Structural weakness]]
*Superstition  
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*[[Superstition ]]
*Taxation, pressure of  
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*[[Taxation, pressure of ]]
*Terrorism  
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*[[Terrorism ]]
*Tiredness of life  
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*[[Tiredness of life ]]
*Totalitarianism  
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*[[Totalitarianism ]]
*Treason  
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*[[Treason ]]
*Tristesse  
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*[[Tristesse ]]
*Two-front war  
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*[[Two-front war]]
*Underdevelopment  
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*[[Underdevelopment]]
*Useless eaters  
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*[[Useless eaters ]]
*Usurpation of all powers by the state  
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*[[Usurpation of all powers by the state]]
*Vain gloriousness  
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*[[Vain gloriousness]]
*Villa economy  
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*[[Villa economy]]
*Vulgarization  
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*[[Vulgarization]]
 
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::See also: Karl Galinsky in Classical and Modern Interactions (1992) 53-73
 
::See also: Karl Galinsky in Classical and Modern Interactions (1992) 53-73
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Latest revision as of 11:30, 23 May 2009

  • From The Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1911.

The Introduction of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon


Source: A. Demandt, Der Fall Roms (1984) 695
See also: Karl Galinsky in Classical and Modern Interactions (1992) 53-73
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