Did Immigration Really Cause the Fall of Rome?
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Roman Empire, Quote an Quot, Is a Crisis of the Third Century
The fall of the roman empire is often characterized as triumph of superstition and barbarism. There are problems with that view, not least in terms of gibbon's own perspective en gibbon, writing in the late eighteenth century. He likes to see himself as a rational figure,. an ed against irrational forces, superstition and Barbarism seem to represent. So he always sees the threat as somehow external. Christianity can be seen as an alien creed, the barbarians as alien peoples.
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