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So, today is a very special day because the new year is at our doorstep, just about to ring a bell and so on. But I've decided that screw the New Year's Eve, I'm going to write something about Rome.

And that is the fall of the Roman Empire, and more specificly the sacking of the city itself.

Lets focus on the one from the year 410 A.D. .

So it was commonly known at the time that the great Empire is falling and the barbarians (in that case Visigoths) are at the gates, as many diffirent invasions and armies were quite frankly all over the shop, but it was yet a surprise for everyone when the city of Rome fell to the Goths. Especially, that it wasn't even the Empire's capitol (it was moved to Ravenna in 402 A.D.). 

The sack itself didn't happen the first time the Visigoths saw the city; there were three invasions before that. First, the Roman population, besieged and encircled, had to give away every single pund of silver, gold, furs etc. as well as the barbarian slaves. 

The second invasion despite not getting the Goths any treasures weakened Rome with famines and months of starvation, Barbarians didn't finish the siege, because they marched towards Ravenna, which remained untouched so far.

The third siege resulted in the city being sacked and vastly damaged by the barbarians, as the imperial forces were not capable of anything. It destroyed the only damaged economy of the Western Roman Empire. And the western world continued to slip into decline. 

And that's pretty much it for today.

See you next time.