what made ancient rome fall?
Capture of Rome
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 They ignited a heated controversy and brought it to Rome . They raised three main points of contention : 

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 The former Oxford University historian Adrian Goldsworthy has argued that the cause of the fall of the Roman Empire in the West should not be blamed on barbarization of the late Roman Army , but on its recurrent civil wars , which led to its ability to repel or defeat invasions from outside its frontiers to be seriously weakened . The East Roman or Byzantine empire on the other hand had fewer civil wars to contend with in the late fourth and early fifth centuries , or in the years from 383 @-@ 432 A.D. 

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 = = Collapse in the West and survival in the East ( 395 AD – 476 AD ) = = 

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 The 79 AD eruption was preceded by a powerful earthquake seventeen years beforehand on February 5 , AD 62 , which caused widespread destruction around the Bay of Naples , and particularly to Pompeii . Some of the damage had still not been repaired when the volcano erupted . The deaths of 600 sheep from " tainted air " in the vicinity of Pompeii indicates that the earthquake of 62 may have been related to new activity by Vesuvius 

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 Two major disasters struck during 79 and 80 . On 24 August 79 , Mount Vesuvius erupted , burying the surrounding cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under metres of ash and lava ; the following year , a fire broke out in Rome that lasted three days and that destroyed a number of important public buildings . Consequently , Titus spent much of his reign coordinating relief efforts and restoring damaged property . On 13 September 81 after barely two years in office , he unexpectedly died of fever during a trip to the Sabine territories . 
