Battle of Adrianople (Part 1/3)

Battle of Adrianople
Part 1 of 3

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[TheDiego1255]

Don't you laugh when he says "now with new video game technology"  :P

[celticbattleaxe]

..." from the OSTROGOTHIC forces" . It is more precise to say Ostrogothic than German. That's what the tribe was called, people.

[empyrionin]

@empyrionin In the end, the lack of conquests, the failing integrity of the empire, the divergence of its peoples, the military and administrative decentralization as well as the barbarian threat and the inability to cope with the changing times put a slow end to the Roman Empire.

[empyrionin]

@ImaginedWriter The prosperity of Rome was fueled by its conquests, and therefore, by the spoils of war. When that stopped, Rome stagnated. There wee also several economic hyper-inflationary crises. People scraped silver off money, trying to cheat each other with "lighter" coins, but the practice obviously had side effects and the whole economic system almost collapsed. Justinian and several other emperors temporarily attempted to fix the empire's problems, but the causes were too deep.

[ImaginedWriter]

@empyrionin What about the economic state of the empire and innovation? Did that become stagnant?

[empyrionin]

@ImaginedWriter It has to do principally with the military reforms of the roman armies whereby legions stopped being primarily composed of Italic soldiers, but became composed mainly of citizens of the Romanized regions. The weakened legions of limitanei weren't as strong as the legions of ancient Rome. The army became common. It didn't help that most claimants to the title of emperor were generals of these armies, thereby weakening the unity of the Empire further.

[empyrionin]

@SonicNitro Do not mistake the Goths with the Getae, they were different peoples (Goths were of Germanic origin, Getae of Thracian stock). Many authors confuse them because of the similarity in name. The confusion has propagated throughout several decades of semi-academic writings.

[ImaginedWriter]

How the hell do you go from the glory and might of Rome under Augustus to in 250yrs barbarism?

How? What happened to the great men of Rome?

[1satyagraha1]

@SonicNitro the goths originally migrated from Scandinavia (its not clear where exactly) to Dacia.

[SonicNitro]

Did the guy just say Scandinavia at2:57, the Goths were orginally from Dacia, thats like now Romania. I'm open to anyboby who thinks otherwise.

[TheFreshEC]

@ZackVandygriff Rome total war, this is the expansion Barbarian Invasion.

[ZackVandygriff]

What simulation game is that i gotta have it.