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Explanation: While the difference is sometimes exaggerated out of nostalgia for a time never lived in, it is certainly true that the decline and fall of the Roman Empire had disastrous effects on the lives of the formerly prosperous provinces which comprised it. Trade routes which were once safe from the Atlantic to the eastern Mediterranean were now treacherous, centralized authorities which punished banditry were weakened, wealthy benefactors and government officials seeking glory through the construction of infrastructure were impoverished. Life, even for the common people, became harder, and relicts of the past towered above the ramshackle buildings of the post-Roman polities. A true apocalypse!
I would just say people needed a little excitement, and they finally got it.