Question

describe the "fall" of the roman empire from the reigns of Dicletian and constantine through the establishment of the Germadic KIngdoms in the west. explain the process of rome's decline in the west how and why did the empire fall in the west why did it survive in the east?

Answer 1

The East had more concentrated wealth than the West, primarily from trade, and could more easily support the immense heavy superstructure of the Imperial bureaucracy and army, with its grinding taxes and jungle of mindless and destructive law.

Additionally, the West, being further from the Imperial seat at Constantinople, and with vigorous rival models of governing from the "barbarian" Germanic tribes, had more options for "opting out" of the Imperial model. So after Diocletian, they did so, more and more often. It's not so much that the Western Roman Empire was overrun by barbarians, or that its system was destroyed by some calamity, but rather that the vast mass of non-aristocratic Roman citizens grew to despise the Imperium -- its tax collectors, its governing aristocracy, and the heavy demands of its military -- and, when the opportunity presented itself to switch allegiance, to become the subject of a "barbarian" warlord instead of the Roman Emperor, they embraced it.

The Western Empire was not so much conquered, or decayed, so much as its governing elites lost the trust of those it governed, and without that, no governing system can survive, whatever its other merits.