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Rome a city so long in control of its own destiny and the world's is invaded by a band of dirty smelly socks they are the Visigoths a terrifying assortment of heathens from Europe's Northeastern Frontier and they've come to clear the death of Roman domination for the first time in eight hundred years the Eternal City is under siege Rome had not ever been conquered by a foreign enemy in the Imperial. psychological effects of the greatest city of the ancient world being conquered was absolutely crushing for 3 Days the great capital of Caesar and Augustus is ravaged by its unwelcome guests stunning architectural Marvels that have stew for centuries Arc burn to the ground  Germanic slaves rise up to enslave their Roman Masters and the City Streets Run Red with the blood of its own people  the Roman citizens really are helpless all they know who is if they've had to surrender if there's no one there to protect them that these Gothic Warriors would have been terrifying at the head of the church is Alaric visigothic Warrior when once fought on the empires behalf along its northern Frontier  when was passed over for a promotion within the of the Roman Legions Alaric turn from friend to fall and use what I've learned about Roman Warfare to launch his own campaign of aggression eventually decided that the only way he was going to advance was to  really put the screws Tyrone so the was to tell you the truth a profit-making career move for Alaric  2 years earlier in 4:08 ad Alaric and His Rebel Army had arrived on the doorstep of Rome itself looking for power plunder and most of them food anybody wants to look at why the Visigoths win it's because of desperation they need to win if they don't they starve today and that's the Palawan  in order to conquer the city Alaric would first have to strangle it from the outside undermine the walls too far too large they're far too secure and they're far too well built so he relies on starvation Alan Rickman surrounded role took full control of its supply lines and blocked all shipments of grain coming into the city gradually the city died from within and the Paul of impending death begin to permeate even its most hallowed traditions even in times of utter distress is really important for Roman society to continue to have Jerry at races and killing of wild bees can you total combat execution of criminals population was at the show but they were literally starving and when some condemned men are Gladiators it's not clear with killed and her lying there bleeding out on the Sands of the Arena the crowd started shouting let us by that meat how much per pound do you want for that that's how hungry they were  in Rome Glory will rapidly being replaced like corpses in cannibalism after two years of suffering inside the sealed-off city tried it eroded enough to accept subjugation over starvation on the orders of a Roman aristocrat the city Gates world and the Visigoths stormed in their shopping spree turned up tons of treasure hardly any food so after 3 days Alaric and his men moved on in search of greener pastures and left the heart of the Roman Empire on life a contemporary approach a very well when he says the mother of the world has been killed that's what people thought set the mother of the world had been Bruce Lee killed in a Gothic sack  call Alaric sacking of Rome certainly hastened its demise the mother of the world had been terminally ill for quite some time  as early as the third Century ad the end I had fallen into the hands of a series of inept Emperors whose obsession with personal gain threaten the public welfare and Foster Civil War during a 50-year period in the third Century nearly all of the two dozen Emperors who seized power were brutally slain by Rivals and subjects  well room gradually imploded from within external threats both natural and man-made only its self-destruction diseases such as smallpox and measles entered the European population pool for the first time during the second third sent in this sense the Roman Empire paid the price Parts accessory become so wealthy and hit established contacts with other parts of the world to such an extent that now it was not only importing the very valuable we're supposed to regions whose house importing the diseases that came from those regions as Rome's population began to dwindle so did its Border guard leaving its Emperors no choice but to your Barbarian Fighters like Alaric as mercenary  but as the Romans became more and more dependent on foreign Defenders they also be more openly hostile toward them when the gulf's first entered the Empire they came release refugees and they will. Ended by the treatments that they received at the hands of Roman officials famously officials allowed slave traders to profit by selling dog meat to the Gulfs in exchange for Gothic children as slaves and serve the incompetence the cruelty of Roman officials and drove the Gulfs into Rebellion

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