History is the science that nothing lasts
forever
and the best proof of this is the fate of the
colossal empires of the past that
seemed not destroyed
but still collapsed and remained
only on the pages of textbooks of course
the clearest example of the Roman Empire
state power which
the opinion of many historians, given
adjustment for the level of technology
not yet reached one huge Empire
my water and the judicial system
which we still use today
broke up and then collapsed and over
how this happened is still raging
disputes
but at the same time and myths are born with theories
conspiracy in fact, as you know, the constant
the viewers of our channel, everything is much simpler
realistic and touchdowns this is what we
we'll talk in the next few minutes
the story of how and why Paul Roman
Empire but let's start with a short warm-up
the facts and the first of them is that no one
't know exactly when Rome fell and
according the most common version
date of the fall of the Roman Empire is considered to be
On 4 September 476 is the day when I was
deposed the last Emperor and
the throne for the first time in history
ascended the barbarian Odoacer but there's a lot
nuances firstly talking about the Western
the Roman Empire
for the first three hundred ninety-five
the country was divided into Eastern and
the Western and Eastern known as
Byzantium had lived a Millennium
so if you say that Rome fell in
1453 when the Turks took Constantinople
you would be right about how you will be
if he said that in four hundred seventy
the sixth just replaced the Emperor as the
the Empire collapsed already in 630 for up to
this time, even if the barbarians
functioned legendary Roman Senate
various historians and philosophers to this
day offered their choice and interpretation
because the reality is that we can't
to lay a finger on and say that here
Rome was
and here it is not so mighty
Empire can't be gone 1 day
therefore, in order to understand the issue we
the first thing to go somewhere in STO
the eightieth year of our era, a time when
the Empire was at its peak of power
the territory reached a maximum
measure and domestic policy is finally
track emperors ceased
bicker by the Senate to assume power
toy the period from 96 to 180 years
is called the age of 5 good emperors
and according to historians is included in the top
the best time for life on the planet
for the rulers of the dynasty of the antonines
differed incredible wisdom
nice this list is expanded
include a great
Vespasian ruled earlier but it
it is not so important it is important that looking at
the map we can see a common and incredibly
mighty Rome
the emperors during this era reached
agreement by the Senate and finally
stopped the constant bickering over power
where in the past for the year to
the throne could be replaced by 4 the Emperor
and financial merits of Vespasian which
almost did not lead the warrior helped to Fund
the Treasury and Trojan friends and I used
this to the fullest conquered Assyria
Arabia settled internecine conflicts and
having received the love of the people is perhaps
main story
or the five emperors were distinguished
an interesting approach is the time in which the eyelids
deviated from
aristocratic traditions and guidelines
position received decent people out
depending on the origin, for example
all of these emperors were adopted worthy
approved by the Senate and army successors
so inheriting the position of Emperor
professional which itself was
the state for the benefit but the last of
five Marcus Aurelius broke tradition
leaving a successor of his own son commodo
which went down in history so that in
pitiful few years have destroyed almost everything
achieved over a century and was killed in STO
the ninety and second year, then Rome
plunged into another showdown for
the power they have gone down in history as the crisis 3
century, when on the throne
were the army, the emperors the
the Emperor and the Senate, the Empire lost
region but the power of the ancestors made
having unfolded in parallel
two important moment of the first Christianity
canonical Roman Empire like you
surely you know that Jupiter and other
pagan gods Christianity was subjected
to
them and the emperors including the good
Diocletian strongly encouraged attacks on
Christians, however, they were becoming more and
more and if in the first century the destruction of
temples was a trifle, so the third they
caused serious uprisings
and after the emperor Constantine in
In 313, he recognized Christianity as a
religion and forbade persecution
, the reverse process began, the pagans were already being driven away, which by
itself did not benefit society in any
way, as did the fragmentation of the empire,
because it was stupid to consider Rome even at the time of its
power as one in one of the
We have already mentioned in the previous videos
that Rome has its own way of life throughout its history
Yara did not impose people forcibly
forced to speak Latin took over
traditions and assimilated natural
this helped to gain territory but
almost the entire history of the Empire, and so was
after all, it divided the Eastern part of the
spoke the Greek emperors that not
not only banned but encouraged respecting
culture in three hundred and ninety
fifth year and will be transformed into
the Eastern and Western Roman Empire but
consider it critical I need to de
facto was different rulers and laws
foundations
but that had been almost every
province earlier for ordinary people
has changed not so much the end
crushed state and before
Diocletian two hundred ninety-third
year adopted a four power making
four large region
and his followers that United the
divided the country which again was
conditional dictated by the difficulties in
the management of a vast mechanism to transfer
the decree of the emperor from Rome to Byzantium
thousands of kilometers away at that time was
almost unrealistic and considering that
insane rulers often sat on the throne, you
indicate that logic was not different
the division simply because with it on the spot
will always be people supporting
the stability of the real problem and the reason
the collapse is just the fact that this
stability 4 5 century to smell Perry
was the first thing we mention the army in
the days of the power she willingly went
Romans because in addition to patriotism to the service
attached is such an excellent salary and
allotments
but what to do with the children of these people, and those
more children of the Romans
where all taxes flocked and coins
poured down like a river,
and even more so with the next emperor
who really needs money in the end
from the third century began devastating
processes on the one hand, the army sharply
volunteers needed but on the other they
there were not so many but 3 conditions
stopped Hiking to pay them was
nothing salaries delayed and
taxes on the population continued to increase
what actually erased middle class
the face of Rome because small artisans and
landowners bankrupt
went great along with secondary
class died, and the legendary General
Imperial market it happened just in
the crisis of the third century and let
glimpses of the quality of life there were
fundamentally commerce almost died and
with it a significant share of taxes
which were again compensated by new
levies from the population.
if we were talking only about the content
the army, it may be it would be good but
during the time of Constantine accepted
Christianity
time, there were as many as two million
the monks they just went willingly because
the work is not required and the money
the content was out of the pockets of residents in
one second the entire population of the Empire, then
amounted to about 55 million is to
the word is also another story plowed
given the climate of wiping out the middle class
and the tightness of the high class gave rise to
a terrible demographic crisis in the 150th
year the empire was inhabited by 65 million
people and in the 400th only 50 wealthy
part steadily grew old and vacationing in
parties
and the poor dying and tried to embroider any
what kind of fertility in such conditions
can not speak so
economically active people to
feed Horde monks legionaries and
aristocrats were less like
wanting in most of these legionaries
join earning a penny yet
and hold and on the other side
barbarians at the borders increasingly
to protect yourself from them demoralized and not
a large army was impossible and
the history of Rome came to the conclusion that
barbarians and tried to befriend the Emperor
Theodosius 1 in General allowed goth
to settle in the territories of Rome some
time svar thieves took the oath of protection
territories some time they were hired
to protect the borders from the same barbarian
but all this led to an obvious event
Barbara tion of Rome in General, after
the division into Eastern and Western parts
this westernmost part had
hard its boundaries is completely German and
other barbarians who by the beginning of the fifth
century lived in the Empire at home
various rulers have tried
to reflect their attacks and in the case of
phone 402 and 406 years pretty
successfully but the army did not exist and
some foreigners even then consisted of
taken into the service of the barbarians, and in the year 410
West Gotti under the leadership of Alaric
took Rome it's funny that it came in
history as one of the most humane
the capture of the city in history because it is a barbarian
were Christians and special history
brothers in faith and not used
however, to plunder the capital is not
prevented and the monuments are mostly not
touched
but if they had something Golden that
took the first half of the fifth
century, the Empire was still trying to kick but
after all, the company is not the only barbarians were
the Huns were the angels were the Saxons and one
Attila the Hun drank much blood that East
that Western Empire, and if
Constantinople had been shamefully
to pay off the Tarim suffered from
several violent attacks and a cherry
on the cake was the repeated
this time the brutal plundering
the capital is four hundred fifty-fifth year
Barbara took even the roof
the Capitoline temple of Jupiter only
the sudden death of Attila somehow
gave flopping Empire
take a break and if robbed and Rome that
imagine what happened to the rest of the country
barbarians there did not stand on ceremony and
they created their own states de facto in 460,
only the
territory of Italy remained from western Rome, and
it was the barbarians who chose their
rulers there as the last emperor of Rome
may rihanna was
he tried to return anything having won
Spain and part of France
but was ousted once again the barbarians and
the measures took the position of the Emperor
such confusion continued until 476
year when the German barbarian Odoacer
officially sent Roman symbols of power
Byzantium and called the Rome of his Kingdom
this date is historically
the fall of the state but I hope you have already
they realized that the story was greatly exaggerated
in fact Rome died much earlier and
there were a lot of barbarian rulers in it
food Odoacer and the fall of Rome, the question is connected
not with the German military commander
average hand it is associated with continually
changing emperors raising
taxes demographic crisis and
complete isolation of the aristocracy from
reality when the Empire was still
money and power at her site went
millions of bums sitting on
state neck to feed them
had to spend a lot
and in such conditions of existence
the legendary Roman legions became
impossible
because they won at the expense of discipline
loyalty and patriotism discipline
gone with the personnel crisis, loyalty has gone
with salary delays, but what kind of
patriotism is it if the legions began to
consist of barbarians and mercenaries, so there
is no magic in the history of the fall of Rome
there are only facts that say that
today's Rome has almost nothing in
common with the Rome that fell 15 centuries
ago,
technically Rome for millennia
there was Byzantium, which was still trying to
maintain its power, but the funny fact is
that the third Rome from some point
the vision can be considered to Moscow because
the niece of the last Byzantine
Emperor Sofia married
Moscow 3 and the line of the Roman
emperors continued in Russia
and as the Western part of the Germans as
you know not once tried to poke in Rome
calling it their home, and there is
the revived Holy Roman Empire
Napoleon abolished already in 1806 but again,
consider it the rim is the same
the something to say like a modern
London is a descendant of the Celts real
the Roman Empire fell not for one day and
not for one reason. source of a beautiful photo
