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The empire banned the sentencing of Christians to the gladiatorial arena more than a hundred years before the empire fell, and the games themselves were ended permanently not long after.Napoleon, everything you mention is correct and is commonly cited as one of the reasons Rome fell, but I'd posit that every problem Rome suffered in its last few decades was dramatically worsened by the absence of good men to steer the empire through its troubles. For a time there in the middle of the third century it seemed the empire was simply doomed; but it experienced a military recovery under men like Claudius II and Aurelian, and they only ruled for maybe a combined decade. Thanks to them, the empire lasted another two centuries. Ditto with Diocletian, and perhaps again with the first Valentinian.
The empire banned the sentencing of Christians to the gladiatorial arena more than a hundred years before the empire fell, and the games themselves were ended permanently not long after.
Napoleon, everything you mention is correct and is commonly cited as one of the reasons Rome fell, but I'd posit that every problem Rome suffered in its last few decades was dramatically worsened by the absence of good men to steer the empire through its troubles. For a time there in the middle of the third century it seemed the empire was simply doomed; but it experienced a military recovery under men like Claudius II and Aurelian, and they only ruled for maybe a combined decade. Thanks to them, the empire lasted another two centuries. Ditto with Diocletian, and perhaps again with the first Valentinian.
