Although otherssome may believe otherwise, the main reason for the undoing of the Roman Empire was inflation, because inflation caused unemployment and bartering. For example, many farmers could not pay their employees due to inflation so; therefore, many people became unemployed. As a result of this, unemployed people could not pay taxes owing to the fact thattheir taxes, as they did not have enough money for the government. Also, unemployedUnemployed people would causealso perpetrated more crime, because they wantedrequired necessities that they could notno longer afford. SoThus, because of inflation, people could not pay taxes or gain the necessities they needed without perpetrating crime. In addition, bartering arose, due to lacka lower amount of gold in coins. The lack inof gold was due tothe result of many rich people using their wealth for grand and lavish parties, and they paidpaying for these events with gold. In this way, theThe government then had to put less gold ininto coins to keep the economy going. When the Romans found out that their money washad less valuablevalue, people started bartering (or trading(trading without money) , and because. Because of this, rapid inflation broke loose, becauseas the government had started making more coins that had less valuable and more coinsvalue.