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All the questions you've asked have incredibly complex answers to the point where entire books have been written on each. Unfortunately any succinct efforts we put in here would be about on par with Wikipedia and so you'd be better off just going there if you're a day away from submission. If you're interested in some research books, I can suggest the following:
Rome: An Empire's Story
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Fall of the Roman Empire
There are a million more but these are the three that I've personally read.
Of course your primary sources like Tacitus and Livy are available for free online.
Other less citable but more succinct (and free) sources are available in the form of the History of Rome Podcast (listen to episode 179 - The End and the episodes dealing with the slave revolts) and in the In Our Time: History Archives (look into the 5-6 episodes on Rome).
This one?