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⚔️SPQR Shop, excellent hand-crafted Roman rings and other items: https://spqrshop.com/ref/Maiorianus/ Enter the code "Maiorianus" to get a 10% discount on every purchase. The ideal present for any fan of Rome 😉! 🔴 YOU WANT TO SUPPORT THIS CHANNEL? 🔴 🤗 Join our Patreon community: https://www.patreon.com/Maiorianus 🤗 One-Time Donation? - PayPal: https://paypal.me/Maiorianus - Bitcoin: bc1qv4lsfsplvfecrrgvmfclhga28we7mvh9563xdj 🔗 Share the video with anyone who might be interested (it helps a ton!) 🎁 The official Maiorianus merch store is now OPEN: https://maiorianus.myspreadshop.com Disclosures: Some links in the description are affiliate links which means that if you purchase something by clicking on one of them, your host Sebastian will receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. In this way you will be supporting the channel to improve the video production quality at no extra cost to you. 📬 Contact us: maiorianus.sebastian@gmail.com Was there someone unlucky enough to witness all three sacks of Rome in the 400s? It is a fascinating notion to think that there might have been some people who witnessed the entire 80 year span of the Fall of the Western Roman Empire first hand so to speak, and who were in the midst of the chaos. Was there someone who witnessed the entire dissolution of the Western Roman Empire? Someone who was born when the Empire was still stable, and who died after the last Western Roman Emperor was abdicated? Let's try to find out if that might have been possible, and what such an unlucky person living in Rome in the 400s would have witnessed.

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