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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.

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Welcome one, welcome all to the greatest history blog you will ever find! 

Today, we shall embark on an adventure to the Roman Empire, as the 31st of December is the day, when a barbarian army, a force of 80k men crossed the Rhein at Mainz. 

One may think, that the barbarians crossing the Rhein is not special in any way. After all the empire was in decline for quite a while at that point. But the Rheins was one of the safest borders, that the Roman Empire had, and while it was commonly known that the western world collapses, many still hoped that at least a part of it may endure. The crossing was a proof, that such a thing is not very likely to happen, Furthermore, the crossing was followed by three uprisings in today's France, and presumably a lot of pillaging, raping, murdering and so on. The year 406 A.D was rather unpleasant for the romans, indeed, 

But from the brighter news, the Byzantine Empire managded to reclaim Sicily from the Ostrogoths. The Eastern Roman Empire didn't hold it's "reclaimed" western provinces for too long, but it was something!

Many more things happened on that day but none of them took place in the ancient world and hence that is all for today!

Many thanks for reading and see ya!