What caused the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
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Edward Gibbon famously listed Christianity, barbarian invasions and moral decay. Modern historians emphasise climate (the Late Antique Little Ice Age), the Justinianic plague, fiscal weakness, military transformation, and elite competition.
No consensus single cause exists, and the very framing as a 'fall' rather than a transformation is debated.
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