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I think the western roman empire always kinda sucked, the east was always much wealthier, rome failed to develop properly Gaul and Hispania.

the east could pay brives to defend itself from huns and barbarians, the west was poor and defensless.
in the east there was a coin economy, in the west you could say faudalism had started even before rome fell

antiquity style economy just never clicked in the west.

The only big cities in the west where Rome and Carthague, and Rome was big because it was an imperialistic parasite capital, when the capital was moved to constantinople the population of rome fell drastically.



My why the western empire fell reason is, it always kinda sucked