Classwork WMSIO #7

Discuss the topic: The United States is declining, like the Roman Empire did. Give solid supporting ideas to reasoning.


According to Gibbon's reasoning in his book, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1780s, the fall of the Roman Empire was caused by its greatness in size. I do not agree with him and instead believe in the simple rules of "Risk". The leaders of the Roman Empire were too greedy and spread themselves out too thin without enough army men to defend themselves. Therefore, when outside forces (Ottoman Turks) saw this, they attacked and that is when historians like Gibbon decided to call it the end. But I believe their end was set in stone, it was just a matter of when.

This event has happened before with Germany and the First World War. German leaders had greed in their mind and conquering the World as their purpose. As they strived conquering the world, they made many enemies and not enough forces to annihilate them, that is what happened to the Roman Empire. They had no control whatsoever over their enemies, and it backfired.