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What politicians do. >> their empire kept expanding and they were bringing in more people they could loot and bring back to rome, and they hit the maximum extent of their empire and there was no one left to steal from, and then they started resorting to other ways to raise money, which was debasing their currency and taking silver of our of their coins, and the big government destroyed rome. it wasn't the barbarians. they came as the government was collapsing under its own weight. >> nero issued coins that were 95% silver. the next emperor, this was 85% silver, and all the way down to -- >> yo...

And they did what politicians ty do. >> their empire kept expanding i and bringing in more people that they could loot and bring moneye back to rome and eventually around 100 a.d., they hit the d maximum extent of their empire and there was no one left to steal from and started dee basing their currency and continuing to take the silver out of their coins. raising tax rates and over time, this was the downfall of rome t was a big government destroyed rome. >> it wasn't the barbarians. they came as the government was collapsing under its own weight. >> nero issued coins that were 95% silver. th...