What also isn't taught is that the Germanics who seized Rome in its death throes were Romanized themselves already to a great extent, did not desire the empire's demise, but were ill-equipped to manage the empire. Geographic size of the empires was untennable.
Disparity in wealth between the aristocracy and commoners which isolated one from the other denationalizing the empire.ĩ. Increased isolation of villages and regions as security broke down and travel became increasingly unsafe, thus affecting commerce.Ĩ. Severe casualties in the Western empire's armies and inability to recruit and train replacements fast enough.ħ. Byzantine plotting (bribery) to divert warrior tribes to attacks against the Western Empire instead of the Eastern Empire.Ħ. Vulnerability to lead poisoning in the aristocracy leading to erratic leadership behavior.ĥ. Bad policies on land allocation to Germanics.Ĥ. Economic stagnation and misallocation of resources.ģ. Nothing explained the underlying causes which included:ġ. For example, the extent of what I was taught about the fall of the Western Roman Empire in grades 9 through 12 is that it was overrun by Germanic "barbarians." That's it. Depending upon our level of schooling, what I discovered is that until concentrating on history in university, we are taught history superficially.
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