the threat of attack was always there. life in the countryside seemed safer than in the cities. what effect of the fall of the roman empire does the farmer describe?

Effect of Roman Empire fall in concern with farmer:

Roman Empire had become inflexible and caught in the economic depression cycle resulted in official stagnation.

The causes of the collapse of this mighty Empire is very complicated than the straightforward series of military defeat. Extended frontiers needed a large army, invariably a huge demand on revenues, and successively generating a more and more unwieldy bureaucracy. Too several unproductive mouths were being fed by too few farmers and peasants.

This case was worsened within the areas invaded by Barbarians, wherever conditions were unstable. Continues civil wars for a rival of powers between political powers that drained the funds, depleted workforce, and exhausted the rural area. The debasement of the coinage due to huge rates of inflation, to extend the money provided to pay the military and directors, reduced confidence within the currency and suppressed economic production.