I'd go with C, but there are different opinions. What does your text say?
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Fall of Rome - Why Did Rome Fall
Reasons for the Fall of Rome or the decline of the Roman Empire and reasons http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/romefallarticles/a/fallofrome.htm
Decline of the Roman Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
...the decay of trade and industry was not a cause of Rome's fall. There was a decline in agriculture and land was withdrawn from cultivation, in some cases ...
Overview - Highlights - Theories of a fall, decline ... - Historiography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_the_Roman_Empire
CAUSES FOR THE FALL. OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. A. By 476 AD Germanic invasions have. totally destroyed the old Roman Empire in the west. ...
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What caused the fall of the Roman Empire?
a. defeat by Greece in the Pyrrhic War
b. lack of cultural cohesion
c. land region was too large to defend
d. peasant rebellion
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