How the lack of an ordered succession system led to the Fall of Rome.

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A big reason for the Fall of Rome, was that the Romans never managed to establish an ordered succession system to the throne. Until the bitter end, when Constantinople and the last Roman strongholds fell in the mid 15th century, there were time and time again civil wars, where new emperors arose that fought against the previous ones, there were usurpers throughout roman history left and right, and in fact these constant civil wars did so much damage to the Roman Empire, that external enemies could prevail. Only for brief periods did the Romans manage to establish an ordered succession system, as in the case of the five good emperors in the 2nd century AD, where the emperor adopted a successor based on competence and merit. However, this system only lasted for 90 years, and as soon as it failed, so did the huge problems for the Empire start. This lack of succession system, led to countless usurpers and civil wars in the Roman Empire, which made it easy for the barbarian invaders to overrun the West. And without the West, the fate of the East was also sealed.