210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire

Abolition of gods Abolition of rights Absence of character Absolutism Agrarian question Agrarian slavery Anarchy Anti-Germanism Apathy Aristocracy Asceticism Attack of the Germans Attack of the Huns Attack of riding nomads Backwardness in science Bankruptcy Barbarization Bastardization Blockage of land by large landholders Blood poisoning Bolshevization Bread and circuses Bureaucracy Byzantinism Capillarite sociale Capitalism Capitals, change of Caste system Celibacy Centralization Childlessness Christianity Citizenship, granting of Civil war Climatic deterioration Communism Complacency Concatenation of misfortunes Conservatism Corruption Cosmopolitanism Crisis of legitimacy Culinary excess Cultural neurosis Decentralization Decline of Nordic character Decline of the cities Decline of the Italian population Deforestation Degeneration Degeneration of the intellect Demoralization Depletion of mineral resources Despotism Destruction of environment Destruction of peasantry Destruction of political process Destruction of Roman influence Devastation Differences in wealth Disarmament Disillusion with stated Division of empire Division of labor Earthquakes Egoism Egoism of the state Emancipation of slaves Enervation Epidemics Equal rights, granting of Eradication of the best Escapism Ethnic dissolution Excessive aging of population Excessive civilization Excessive culture Excessive foreign infiltration Excessive freedom Excessive urbanization Expansion Exploitation Fear of life Female emancipation Feudalization Fiscalism Gladiatorial system Gluttony Gout Hedonism Hellenization Heresy Homosexuality Hothouse culture Hubris Hypothermia Immoderate greatness Imperialism Impotence Impoverishment Imprudent policy toward buffer states Inadequate educational system Indifference Individualism Indoctrination Inertia Inflation Intellectualism Integration, weakness of Irrationality Jewish influence Lack of leadership Lack of male dignity Lack of military recruits Lack of orderly imperial succession Lack of qualified workers Lack of rainfall Lack of religiousness Lack of seriousness Large landed properties Lead poisoning Lethargy Leveling, cultural Leveling, social Loss of army discipline Loss of authority Loss of energy Loss of instincts Loss of population Luxury Malaria Marriages if convenience Mercenary system Mercury damage Militarism Monetary economy Monetary greed Money, shortage of Moral decline Moral idealism Moral materialism Mystery religions Nationalism of Rome's subjects Negative selection Orientalization Outflow of gold Over refinement Pacifism Paralysis of will Paralyzation Parasitism Particularism Pauperism Plagues Pleasure seeking Plutocracy Polytheism Population pressure Precociousness Professional army Proletarization Prosperity Prostitution Psychoses Public baths Racial degeneration Racial discrimination Racial suicide Rationalism Refusal of military service Religious struggles and schisms Rentier mentality Resignation Restriction To profession Restriction to the land Rhetoric Rise of uneducated masses Romantic attitudes to peace Ruin of middle class Rule of the world Semieducation Sensuality Servility Sexuality Shamelessness Shifting of trade routes Slavery Slavic attacks Socialism (of the state) Soil erosion Soil exhaustion Spiritual barbarism Stagnation Stoicism Stress Structural weakness Superstition Taxation, pressure of Terrorism Tiredness of life Totalitarianism Treason Tristesse Two-front war Underdevelopment Useless eaters Usurpation of all powers by the state Vain gloriousness Villa economy Vulgarization

Source: A. Demandt, Der Fall Roms (1984) 695 See also: Karl Galinsky in Classical and Modern Interactions (1992) 53-73