[Carriage Hill]

It became “Balkanized” so badly, that it soon didn’t exist.

[olesigh]

Exactly. Splitting the empire into 3

Paying barbarian tribes to serve as legions or not attack Rome

The amazing thing is that a city\empire could last so long

The official religion had become Christianity. So I ask those who blame immorality. Didn’t that make Rome more moral than a few centuries before

[Cronos]

Tye Roman empire before the collapse of the western provinces did not Balkanize

[shoff]

“It became “Balkanized” so badly, that it soon didn’t exist.”
The bread and circuses only forestalled the inevitable.