There are many reasons for the fall of Rome, but these reasons are closely related to two main categories: economics and war. The Roman economy became so bad that they had to tax the citizens and raise prices. Roman citizens who worked could not quit their jobs for fear of going to prison only to be released by death (doc 3.). The Romans feared for their lives and tried to raise a family with the little money they had left after being taxed. This shows that the Roman government is unscrupulous and cares so little for its working citizens. They saw them as dollar signs rather than people with families. Another example of this in Document 2, Rome was harsh to its citizens because of money when the citizens could not live on the little money left from their salaries, they decided to leave Rome (Doc 2 ). As Rome increased its spending, prices rose (doc 6). The Romans eventually moved away because of this mistreatment. The rich owned slaves who forcibly performed free labor. The workers eventually lost their jobs and moved elsewhere (doc 11). If slaves took on all the work, citizens had to be punished for not having money to tax. A large number of lives lost to disease led to an economic decline (Doc 5.) Due to disease and death the working population continued to decline, the only way for Rome to survive this loss was to increase wages. The poor suffered from taxes while the rich “are not punished for their injustice” (doc 17). The injustice of the rich is that they can stand by and watch the working class struggle to survive and live in fear; while the slaves do their work for them. Rome refused to change and believed its ways could be saved (doc 10). Rome trying to save its ways rather than change them, caused suffering to the citizens and caused the fall of Rome. The economy harmed the people of Rome, which destroyed the empire. The Roman army was strong but weakened and lost its power; the military loss was the destruction of the Roman Empire (doc 8). The army became a joke because of laziness and lack of soldiers, they lost more and more wars. Rome started to fall apart because of this and no one can live in a place where everything is falling apart, it's just not safe..