210
Reasons for decline of Roman Empire
Source: A. Demandt, Der Fall Roms (1984) 695
See also: Karl Galinsky in Classical and Modern Interactions
(1992) 53-73.
1.
Abolition
of gods
2.
Abolition
of rights
3.
Absence
of character
4.
Absolutism
5.
Agrarian
question
6.
Agrarian
slavery
7.
Anarchy
8.
Anti-Germanism
9.
Apathy
10.
Aristocracy
11.
Asceticism
12.
Attack of the Germans
13.
Attack of the Huns
14.
Attack of riding
nomads
15.
Backwardness in science
16.
Bankruptcy
17.
Barbarization
18.
Bastardization
19.
Blockage of land
by large landholders
20.
Blood poisoning
21.
Bolshevization
22.
Bread and circuses
23.
Bureaucracy
24.
Byzantinism
25.
Capillarite sociale
26.
Capitals, change
of
27.
Caste system
28.
Celibacy
29.
Centralization
30.
Childlessness
31.
Christianity
32.
Citizenship, granting
of
33.
Civil war
34.
Climatic deterioration
35.
Communism
36.
Complacency
37.
Concatenation of
misfortunes
38.
Conservatism
39.
Capitalism
40.
Corruption
41.
Cosmopolitanism
42.
Crisis of legitimacy
43.
Culinary excess
44.
Cultural neurosis
45.
Decentralization
46.
Decline of Nordic
character
47.
Decline of the cities
48.
Decline of the Italian
population
49.
Deforestation
50.
Degeneration
51.
Degeneration of the
intellect
52.
Demoralization
53.
Depletion of mineral
resources
54.
Despotism
55.
Destruction of environment
56.
Destruction of peasantry
57.
Destruction of political
process
58.
Destruction of Roman
influence
59.
Devastation
60.
Differences in wealth
61.
Disarmament
62.
Disillusion with
stated goals of empire
63.
Division of empire
64.
Division of labor
65.
Earthquakes
66.
Egoism
67.
Egoism of the state
68.
Emancipation of slaves
69.
Enervation
70.
Epidemics
71.
Equal rights, granting
of
72.
Eradication of the
best
73.
Escapism
74.
Ethnic dissolution
75.
Excessive aging of
population
76.
Excessive civilization
77.
Excessive culture
78.
Excessive foreign
infiltration
79.
Excessive freedom
80.
Excessive urbanization
81.
Expansion
82.
Exploitation
83.
Fear of life
84.
Female emancipation
85.
Feudalization
86.
Fiscalism
87.
Gladiatorial system
88.
Gluttony
89.
Gout
90.
Hedonism
91.
Hellenization
92.
Heresy
93.
Homosexuality
94.
Hothouse culture
95.
Hubris
96.
Hypothermia
97.
Immoderate greatness
98.
Imperialism
99.
Impotence
100.
Impoverishment
101.
Imprudent
policy toward buffer states
102.
Inadequate
educational system
103.
Indifference
104.
Individualism
105.
Indoctrination
106.
Inertia
107.
Inflation
108.
Intellectualism
109.
Integration,
weakness of
110.
Irrationality
111.
Jewish
influence
112.
Lack
of leadership
113.
Lack
of male dignity
114.
Lack
of military recruits
115.
Lack
of orderly imperial succession
116.
Lack
of qualified workers
117.
Lack
of rainfall
118.
Lack
of religiousness
119.
Lack
of seriousness
120.
Large
landed properties
121.
Lead
poisoning
122.
Lethargy
123.
Leveling,
cultural
124.
Leveling,
social
125.
Loss
of army discipline
126.
Loss
of authority
127.
Loss
of energy
128.
Loss
of instincts
129.
Loss
of population
130.
Luxury
131.
Malaria
132.
Marriages
of convenience
133.
Mercenary
system
134.
Mercury
damage
135.
Militarism
136.
Monetary
economy
137.
Monetary
greed
138.
Money,
shortage of
139.
Moral
decline
140.
Moral
idealism
141.
Moral
materialism
142.
Mystery
religions
143.
Nationalism
of Rome's subjects
144.
Negative
selection
145.
Orientalization
146.
Outflow
of gold
147.
Over
refinement
148.
Pacifism
149.
Paralysis
of will
150.
Paralysization
151.
Parasitism
152.
Particularism
153.
Pauperism
154.
Plagues
155.
Pleasure
seeking
156.
Plutocracy
157.
Polytheism
158.
Population
pressure
159.
Precociousness
160.
Professional
army
161.
Proletarianization
162.
Prosperity
163.
Prostitution
164.
Psychoses
165.
Public
baths
166.
Racial
degeneration
167.
Racial
discrimination
168.
Racial
suicide
169.
Rationalism
170.
Refusal
of military service
171.
Religious
struggles and schisms
172.
Rentier
mentality
173.
Resignation
174.
Restriction
to profession
175.
Restriction
to the land
176.
Rhetoric
177.
Rise
of uneducated masses
178.
Romantic
attitudes to peace
179.
Ruin
of middle class
180.
Rule
of the world
181.
Semieducation
182.
Sensuality
183.
Servility
184.
Sexuality
185.
Shamelessness
186.
Shifting
of trade routes
187.
Slavery
188.
Slavic
attacks
189.
Socialism
(of the state)
190.
Soil
erosion
191.
Soil
exhaustion
192.
Spiritual
barbarism
193.
Stagnation
194.
Stoicism
195.
Stress
196.
Structural
weakness
197.
Superstition
198.
Taxation,
pressure of
199.
Terrorism
200.
Tiredness
of life
201.
Totalitarianism
202.
Treason
203.
Tristesse
204.
Two-front
war
205.
Underdevelopment
206.
Useless
eaters
207.
Usurpation
of all powers by state
208.
Vain
gloriousness
209.
Villa
economy
210.
Vulgarization
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