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Military and Political Turmoil
At one point in time the romans cared so deeply about their republic that they were willing to sacrifice their lives for it. But by the third century A.D, media type="youtube" key="nqM4tKPDlR8" height="390" width="480" align="right"things began getting difficult and falling into disarray roman soldiers became less loyal and disciplined. As a way to protects the empire from the increasing threats they began to recruit mercenaries. Once the mercinaries were called in, feelings of loyalty were eventually weakened among the Roman citizens as well, causing them to be indifferent of the emrpires fate.