The Roman Empire - The First Wave of North Sea Migrations

There are growing political problems within the empire, fracturing power. It becomes very difficult for a totally centralized power to be operated with one emperor controlling this entire Empire. The office of the emperor had been split into two and sometimes into four. And there were growing problems, politically within the empire. So all of that leads to er a series of rolling political crises culminating in the fifth century,. Four ten, the sack of rome, and then the splintering and the jettisoning of parts of the western roman empire.