210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire

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  • From The Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1911.

The Introduction of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

  • 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
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