Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Cause of Downfall in Ancient Rome


In ancient Rome there were different causes of the fall of the empire. One reason is that there were a lot of attacks from nomadic. Another reason was that Rome hired mercenaries or people that fight only for money. Then as they made more money, the value of money went down, which was called inflation. Then a big gap was between the rich and the poor.
In the United States the same problems are occurring. Instead of nomadic tribes we had attack from terrorist. We also hire mercenaries to fight in the war. We also are going through inflation. The U.S. also has the same gap between the rich and poor. I think that maybe the U.S will fall because the U.S and Rome have almost the same reasons so maybe one day the U.S. will fall like the Roman Empire. But we just have to wait and see what happens.