CIVILIZATION
ROMAN
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Question
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It had little influence over the areas where it expanded
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It was smaller than other nations at the time
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It became too spread out from its center in Rome
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It was unable to expand throughout Europe
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Detailed explanation-1: -Trajan became emperor in 98 and seems to have been keen to win military glory; earlier in his reign he had mounted two successful wars against the Dacians (a tribe living in the area of modern day Romania) and their king Decebalus. AE dupondius of Trajan.
Detailed explanation-2: -The West was severely shaken in 410, when the city of Rome was sacked by the Visigoths, a wandering nation of Germanic peoples from the northeast. The fall of Rome was completed in 476, when the German chieftain Odoacer deposed the last Roman emperor of the West, Romulus Augustulus.
Detailed explanation-3: -The empire did stumble through the following years, but the irreversible downward movement of the empire started in 180 AD. Most historians agree on this date; even the ancient Romans were aware that this date was a significant historical moment in the fate of their empire.