humans will be humans, what did you really expect?

dude Rome was America Beta

Yeah Ancient Rome was full of fat people, had a really big military that they used to bully and take over other countries, was run by money-grubbing politicians, had slavery, and was trashy yet decadent at the same time. Still, some of this graffiti sounds like shit you'd hear some ese on the street say.

the romans were actually pretty corrupted, they had a lot of power but the reason they fell was because they were so greedy and their society was *crag*ed up
i dont have a history major though so i dont know all the details

well thats really only part of the story, only some of the key figures to their government were corrupt, but it was the fact that certain laws gave those figures absolute power in the case of "military emergency" that lead to on of the greatest problems, any of them religious in the case of large scale social persecutions (towards the later years of the empire, until that point they had been very tolerant). Another key factor was the literal size of the empire, their army was spread so thin protecting the boarders, well any game of civilization will tell you what happens then. Their army was massive, but keep in mind the ratio of people then to now, their army numbered around 400,00 soldiers, so spread that out across the boarders of the entire empire and it gets spread VERY thin. Combine this with economic and production failure(which would not be regained until the 18th century) you get a falling society. The last ditch effort made by the Roman government to save the empire was a double edged sword. They split Rome in two (Western Rome and Eastern Rome ( The Byzantine Empire)) and hoped that this would cut down the costs, maintenance, and overall debt of the empire. It did exactly this, Rome began to slow down in it's decline, and was on a rise again, especially in the east with it's booming trade routes throughout Asia. But a problem came, Western Rome could no longer supply as sizable a military to protect it's boarders and enforce law throughout the Mediterranean and Europe. This lead to barbarians conquering Western Rome, and under their rule the empire collapsed plunging the Western world into nearly a thousand years of darkness. Eastern Rome however thrived with a massive military, well maintained trade routes, roads, and a very tolerate society that had well progressing technologies, a cultural explosion, and would eventually give birth to the people now know as the Russians. Western Rome, know after around 500 CE as the Byzantine Empire would continue to thrive well into the 14th century, when it was conquered by the ottomans, and many of the Byzantines escaped to the newly growing country of Kiev(later it would reform as Russia with it's capital in Moscow, or as the people of the time called it Third Rome), which had finally escaped control of the mongols. A century later the crusades to regain the holy land had ended and Europe had been reintroduced to progressive society, thus beginning the Renaissance.

claus
do you know how to spell "borders"?

boarders

I'm from the south so I have to spell everything with a southern accent

right.

No, you're just retarded

Boarders is an entirely different word with an entirely different meaning.