The authors of the textbook argue that internal weakness must account for the fall of the Roman Empire because ________
A) Roman generals defected to the Germanic side in large numbers
B) the Germanic peoples were not a serious military threat
C) the Germans only began to move into the empire after the fall of Rome itself
D) the Germanic peoples had no real desire to move into the empire
B
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