Immigration and lack of assimilation were the big problems. Rome lost battles, sure, but the Roman Empire wasn’t killed on the battlefield. The culture just faded and it no longer had cohesion. Died with more of a whimper than a bang.
Or from Rome....
Well, the Via Appia does run from Brindis to Rome....Rome began its fall when it instituted the Dole to foster the “finer tastes” and to “institute tranquility” - they called it “Cura Annonae” or “grain dole”...so says Wikipedia and other more “modern” versions of history....when I was in school, history teachers were allowed to speak the truth that Rome’s version of Welfare/EBT was a deciding factor in the fall of the empire because it wasn’t just as Wiki and others state today, it was also used to support “artistes”...
(The Orontes was a river in Syria.)
476 AD to be exact
immigration without assimilation is invasion. The best examples I can think of occurred in Britain. Romans 100 AD ish. Viking shortly after the Romans left, Saxons 600-700 AD, Normans in the 11th century and Muslims in the 21 century.
And then there is Kosovo where the Albanians forced out the Serbs and Cali where the Mexicans are forcing out the Americans.
If a society does not force immigrants to assimilate, that society will be conquered and forced to assimilate to its’ new rules norms of behavior. Western Europe(we) is now experiencing this. Maybe the men (or women) of WE will grow a pair? Probably not, I’m waiting to see election results in France where Le Pen is the only sane choice. Oh and we better reelect Trump.
All roads DID lead to Rome
Needs to be changed to
ALL ROADS LEAD TO OBAMA !
That’s why Rome was identified in Jewish history as Edom.
“Roman satirists may have been right when they spoke of Greeks and Syrians taking over their city. “
But they were cool with Rome annexing Greece and Assyria?
How can this be? Rome fell around 400AD, but diversity is our strength.
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The Eastern Roman Empire didn’t fall until May 29th,1453, when Muslim armies took Constantinople.
This fact puts Muslim expansion into perspective.
It was happening at the time of Columbus. Its is still happening now. How many millions were enslaved, how many male African slaves were castrated, how many young European male slaves (Slavs) were castrated, indoctrinated into Islam, and then used as shock troops for the Muslim invasion of Europe?
How many sleeper agents have now infiltrated the West, to be called to action by Iran and other bad agents.
The western half of the Roman empire fell or rather quietly stopped in terms of imperial administration in 470 AD.
But the eastern Roman empire remained. They called themselves Romans and their emperor was called the Roman emperor until 1453.
In the west, Rome the city was continually occupied and Roman culture remained over all of the former imperial domains.
The Roman empire was very diverse. One dynasty of emperors, from Septimus Severus were actually Phoenician/ Carthaginian by blood but Roman by culture.
Another, Philip the Arab was, well Arab. Then you had Spanish, Dacian etc emperors
In my own musings and speculation, I suspect that Christ came at the earliest time and place in history when His message could be spread to the ends of the earth. The Roman Empire was a necessity to this end.
I am reminded of a time when I was 18, living in Philadelphia, receiving my driver’s license for the first time, itching to go to the New Jersey Shore and asking my Dad, which road should I take, Dad, his answer:
All roads lead to the Jersey Shore. We laughed.
We are miles and miles away from that now, but a great memory.