[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Very interesting list, with a lot of things worth debating. (Note: Blue emphasis added by me)

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[rellimpank]

--how many years did it take?

[headsonpikes]

I think I'll have to go with 'concatenation of misfortunes'.

Although 'tristesse' is an intriguing alternative.

[stainlessbanner]

Does Der Falls Rom go into more detail about each of these?

[RightWhale]

All that and they missed the main reason. They closed the frontier.

[Billthedrill]

They missed global warming. On the upside, you never once heard Caligula say "I did not have sex with that [fill in the blank]"...

[Plutarch]

I thought it was due to climatic disruption caused by Earth coming too close to comet debris.

[Jeff Gordon]

polytheism

Since the Roman Empire had been firmly under Christian leadership for over 100 years before the Fall, one should argue that Christianity was a prime cause of the Fall. Had Rome remained polytheistic, it might have survived longer.

[SunkenCiv]

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