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Depopulation, lack of faith in their Roman culture
Great power, died due to suicide
Rome was an excellent example
Causes of decay
Lack of trust and confidence in their Culture,
Multiculturism rose while assimilation and stress in Roman identity fell.
Low birth rate, Italy experienced low birth rate among the reasons , birth control practiced by Italians, the army depended increasingly of recruits of dubious loyalty to the Roman cultural-political identity.
Decayed of the middle class , due to cheap labor supply , slavery which polarized society and produced long term economic decline.
Italy from net exporter became a net importer , depending of the Eastern provinces for all kind of supplies, so all the wealth of Rome was sent to pay for products made abroad.
Italy lost her agrarian and manucfactural base
( Sounds familiar to present America yes )
Spiritual vacuum, for many the Old gods and Western religions did not appeal them so the turned to Eastern mysteries religions or Christianity .
The Intellectual and Political Elite glorified the BArbarian as of Nobler soul and better than the sophisticated Roman
( Seems like history repeat itself)
Romans from stoic and patriotic, became self indulgent, reluctant to sacrifices for the motherland and
Soft
Well nothing new under the sun neither then or now ?
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