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Why did the Roman Empire in the west go into decline?

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Germanic tribes such as the Franks, Ostragoths, Vandals and the Visigoths were surrounding it and weakening it by spreading into their territory, and also it was having internal governmental issues and struggles for consolidation of power.
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