Why Rome Fell         The sun had long ago set, the newborn moon peeked out from behind a scattering of thin, high clouds. From a vantage point atop one of seven hills I could see glimpses of how this great city must once have looked. The mammoth buildings seem to shed their long years and are once again as they were; huge, awe inspiring, it is as if a portal in time had opened and I …showed first 75 words of 997 total…

…showed last 75 words of 997 total…Perhaps someday we will know the true reasons for the fall and be able to use that knowledge to prevent the same fate from destroying our American 'empire.' Works Cited Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. New York: Random House. Jordan, David P. Gibbon and his Roman Empire. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1971. Woomersley, David. The Transformation of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.