[Renfield]

I hope that both of you are joking. Excessive taxation, official corruption, loss of cultural integrity, and loss of agricultural productivity due to soil erosion and salination in the grain-supplying areas of North Africa were the major causes. A series of barbarian invasions provided the coup de gras, but the empire was already weak, decadent, and spindly by that time.

[EggsAckley]

Well, I, for one, was not joking, and I'm pretty sure that blam was not either.

How about you provide some documentation for YOUR version of what happened?? Or maybe YOU'RE joking...........