Civilizations fall by not advancing in their society and the inflation of their money, so the people that live there are extremely poor. When all of the people are poor in your civilization you don’t get enough money from taxes to survive and thrive in your society. You need money to advance your civilization as a whole, like you need other people's money to go to war because war is really expensive and when people can’t pay for it, they don’t have the money to pay the soldiers and pay for armour and weapons and other things that you need to pay for to go to war. According to 10 Reason Countries Fall Apart it states that “by being utterly unable to take advantage of their society’s huge potential for growth, condemning their citizens to a lifetime of poverty”(2). Since your …show more content…
For example in ancient Rome, they split the society into two groups, the rich and the poor which were also known as the Plebeians and the patricians. According to 10 reasons why Countries Fall Apart it states that “They redistribute not just income and wealth but also political power” (first paragraph 5th section). They give out the income, wealth, and political powers to the people inside of that society. So they were making the poor, poorer, therefore, making the rich, richer and giving the rich more powers and rights than the poor. How does these element cause countries to fall? Well when the poor can’t pay their taxes because they don’t have the money to, then the country doesn’t have enough money to go to war when they need to or even just advance their society. Well, when you're not up to date with your society and other countries start to make what you have better, then people won’t go to you and you won’t get to make the money so you're society can’t advance as a