== The Decline of the Roman Empire == 

 Thousands of books have been written about the decline of one of the most developed cultures 
 of human kind. Of course, we have no right to neglect to study this topic. Leaving out the 
 time span of more than thousand years of Roman thought and reality would cut out the 
 "childhood" of modern civilization. 

 We have to go back to these centuries long ago to understand why we are who we are today. 
 Read the Wikipedia article to make yourself familiar with the subject. Go to Spengler and 
 Toynbee and research which information the Internet provides for both names and the topic 
 "Third Century Crisis". Make yourself familiar with the various search engines on-line. Do 
 the above mentioned historians help you understand the final decline of the RE (Roman Empire)? 

 Why were historians of the Victorian Era (Great Britain) so interested in the research of the 
 way that ancient empires declined and disappeared? 

 Collect material on-line and write an essay with some answers to the above questions.  

 * Oswald Spengler: An Introduction to his Life and Ideas (Keith Stimely) 
 * Arnold Toynbee Study of History 
 * The Crisis of the Third Century (Saylor) 
 * Crisis of the Third Century (Chrystalinks)