(16-02-20, 07:57 PM)vinnyb link Wrote: I thought the Roman Empire collapsed longer ago than that, but then I must admit, I didn't find history that interesting when I was at school. :lol
Now's the time to catch up mate
it started slowly, driven by greed for guess what......... yep money and profit. Cuts, cuts and yep more cuts, over a 150 odd years or so, eventually they reached a point were the legions, now mainly made up of auxiliaries (cheaper soldiers not Roman) city and settlements that sprung up to gather/grow/dominate and the trade routes to them could no longer be kept open. Lowering of standards, ever more corruption, Tribes/peoples like the Vandals (Germans, hay up wake world you're going to be hearing more about these in the next 1300yrs!) these were the biggest of a several. Way to complicated to list here, but the similarities with what we've got today is pretty striking and unless we do something pretty quick, we in the Western world will go the same way, Daesh or ISIS mean anything to you!
Later