Urban Decay

While rich Romans got to live in a nice apartment with glass windows and colored tiles, poor Romans had to live in crowded smelly apartments up to six floors high. These apartments were dangerous because the higher up, the more rickety stairs one would have to climb. Since most of the Roman population was poor, historians believe that this helped lead to the downfall of Rome rome.info/history/empire/fall/
By: Ompimia Faustina (Lauren Henson)