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tfw no goth gf
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Ancient Romans were actually ethnic Scandinavians according to 4chan.
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Ironic considering the Goths and other germanic tribes were predatory migrants (actual term used by a serious historian on the fall of the Western Empire)
!historychads, the Western Empire didn't βfell from insideβ it was murdered.
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!metashit !dramatards new anti-mayo slur just dropped
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He Against attempts to dismiss his account of large migratory invasion of Goths in 376 as a topos, Heather points out that Ammianus was quite capable of distinguishing between different sizes and types of barbarian forces, and that there in nothing implausible about a form of βpredatory migrationβ involving a βmassed, mixed group,β even if that group does not really qualify as a βpeopleβ but rather as a βcoherent mass of population.β Subsequent movements of Vandals, Alans, et cetera, can be similarly understood. Against efforts to find causes within Roman political and military policy, Heather restores the Huns to their primary role in the collapse of the Roman frontier.
Heather even did a seminary βPredatory Migration in the first millenniumβ
His book about the fall of Rome is worth reading and among the latest scholarship on that period.
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Hmm
I think population pressure from the outside (more and more germanoids) combined with a century of plague made the western empire difficult to hold. Civilian institutions really decayed, leaving
random warlords running the show in western Rome, and then Germanic kingdoms
Though reading books on the early eastern roman empire, I wonder if there was a way to restore the institutions. Late antiquity saw centralized governments across Europe and North Africa collapse,
except in Constantinople where a concerted effort was made to pool half a millenia's worth of gold and capital was gathered to finance a new bureaucratic elite. The caliphates that followed were also ran
successfully for a while as civilian ran countries
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It fell because it got separated from all its resources.
Egypt, Balkans, near east were all really important for Rome for their grain, metal, and manpower.
On the other hand France wasn't really that useful until the Huns brought the heavy plow to Europe from China so it was basically just Italy+North Africa.
Now TBF Italy stayed extremely wealthy even when rome fell, but you can't really run an empire with just the peninsula once france and Germany came online as independent powers with new agricultural innovations and Italy stayed disunited.
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I distinctly remember reading some chud blog (unfortunately I forgot where) that said the Germanic tribes came in to save Rome from racial decline, and I genuinely laughed out loud reading it.
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You're fording the Danube in a wagon with your extended family and a Burgundian slaps your wife's butt. WDYD?
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Serve him poisoned snails on a plate because Burgundian have no taste and can't differentiate that my wife has a peepee.
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Don't
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if 
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have
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I hope the !christians incels meet a nice visigoth gal
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Based
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If the Romans had their way, you'd be invisigoths.
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Only if they're an Ostro-Romaboo
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Convert to Arianism goy
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No foreskin on this poster
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U say that like it's a bad thing bb
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Tomyris would have her enemies' skulls stripped clean of flesh and turned into big cups to drink booze out of. She might have been a little too much for me to handle.
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I am a 49 year old black man My wife left me 12 years ago and my 2 daughters twerk in the background of DaBaby music videos and my sons a 6 9 piece of shet that can't even do basketball. Instead he spends money on white women on the internet. I am losing money because I got fired from my construction job for having s*x with another builder on site. This is my situation and this is why I am on rdrama.net
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