Many causes that lead to the decline and finally fall of the empire where disease, famine, war and buildings and roads where starting to crumble. Many barbaric tribes invaded Western Empire over many years. When Rome wouldn’t help the Visigoths, who were starving and desperate, attacked. In 410 B.C. the Visigoths captured Rome. As the barbarian tribes traveled across Europe, fighting for land and what was left of the Roman army, the Western Empire had a lot of unskilled and inadequate leaders. In 475 B.C. Orestes, a Roman general and a very powerful one too, declared his son, who was still a small child, as the new emperor. The boy emperor didn’t even rule a year before his father’s soldiers turned on them both, and the soldiers killed his
