HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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were recruited into the army, but often were not loyal to Rome.
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refused to pay the taxes that other citizens had to pay.
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often picked fights with the other citizens.
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Germanic individuals took important posts in the government and the military, and Germanic tribes penetrated ever further into lands that had been Roman for centuries. The Western Roman Empire finally collapsed under these various pressures in 476 CE, chief among them the power of invading Germanic tribes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Rome had tangled with Germanic tribes for centuries, but by the 300s “barbarian” groups like the Goths had encroached beyond the Empire’s borders. The Romans weathered a Germanic uprising in the late fourth century, but in 410 the Visigoth King Alaric successfully sacked the city of Rome.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Vandals were a Germanic people who sacked Rome and founded a kingdom in North Africa that flourished for about a century, until it was conquered by the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 534.
Detailed explanation-4: -Visigoths defeated the Roman Army in 378. Considered the start of the final collapse of the Western Roman Empire.