New farming techniques generated major demographic growth, and there is plentiful evidence for increased trade and other new flows of wealth. At the same time, an economic revolution had been unfolding among the largely Germanic groups who dominated non-Roman Europe. From this point on, a much higher proportion of the empire's resources, fiscal and military, had to be focused permanently on the east. Much more important to imperial collapse than any internal developments was the rise of Persia to superpower status in the third century AD.In fact, its economic prosperity continued to grow right into the late-imperial period despite difficult adjustments to its internal political operations.It has long been argued that its western half came to an end in the fifth century AD largely for internal reasons.The Roman empire was the largest and longest-lived state that western Eurasia has ever known.
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