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Use my link https://get.atlasvpn.com/Maiorianus to get Atlas VPN exclusive deal with 82% OFF! (30-day money-back guarantee) 😉 🔴 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!) 👍 Subscribe to our videos FOR FREE! 📬 Contact us: maiorianus.sebastian@gmail.com As we have discussed many times on this channel, there are many reasons for the Fall of the Roman Empire, there is not one single big reason. And one of those reasons is sometimes said to be, that the late roman army was weak, undisciplined, and ineffective. That the late Romans were only inferior, degenerate versions of the glory days when the legions were a very disciplined formidable fighting force, that the late Roman army was but a mere shadow of its former self, that the late roman army was inferior in fighting skill, in equipment, and through and through barbarized. And thus that it was absolutely no wonder that the Western Roman Empire fell in the 5th century, since how could such a pitiful army defend so vast an empire against so many barbarian invaders? Well, friends of late Roman history, I hope I can convince you in this video, that all these accusations against the late Roman army could not be further from the truth.

🔴 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!) 👍 Subscribe to our videos FOR FREE! 📬 Contact us: maiorianus.sebastian@gmail.com The emperor Constantine is normally portrayed quite positively, because he was the first Christian emperor, and because he founded the new capital of the Roman Empire, Constantinople, which would for a thousand years be a bulwark for the defence of Europe against the invading armies of the islamic Caliphate. However, the success of the Eastern Roman Empire, was built upon the doom of the Western Roman Empire. Constantine, by shifting all imperial power to the East, severely weakened the Western Roman Empire. The Western Roman Empire was never intended to work as a separate entity, and the division between East and West, was a very uneven one. The Eastern Roman Empire basically got the better, richer provinces and the better, more secure geography. Sure, the splitting of the empire was a trend that was begun even earlier, after the crisis of the 3rd century, but Constantine made this division much more pronounced, by establishing Constantinople as the new capital. This shifting of the power base to the East allowed the Eastern Roman Empire to survive, and Constantinople to become a 1000 year lasting bulwark, but that was done by weakening the Western Roman Empire, which would ultimately lead to its fall already 120 years after Constantine's death.

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🔴 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!) 👍 Subscribe to our videos FOR FREE! 📬 Contact us: maiorianus.sebastian@gmail.com Many historians teach that the Western Roman Empire was doomed to fail, but they tend to forget the heroic emperor Majorian. This emperor almost managed to restore the Western Roman Empire in his too short 4 year reign from 457 to 461 AD. After the devastation caused by the huns, a massive civil war ensued that left the Western Empire in a dire state. In those times, Majorian rose to power, and immediately pushed out many laws and reforms, and started a military campaign with some of the last resources the empire could gather. In only a few years he restored the Empire from this to this. Unfortunately though, his plan to reconquer Africa from the Vandals was thwarted by traitors, his fleet burned, and so his plan failed. In the end he was betrayed again by his own general, the evil Magister Militum Ricimer, and killed in 461. And so the last hope of the Western Roman Empire had also ended.

🔴 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!) 👍 Subscribe to our videos FOR FREE! 📬 Contact us: maiorianus.sebastian@gmail.com Well at least the new Amazon Lord of the Rings series will have one advantage, namely that many will re-read the good old books by JRR Tolkien, in order to cleanse their minds from this new age cashgrab, which, let's be honest, the series is most likely going to be. And when revisiting the old books, now through the eyes of someone who is fascinated with late roman history, I did notice quite some fascinating similarities between the kingdoms of the Numenoreans in Tolkien's wonderful legendarium, Anor and Gondor, and the Western and the Eastern Roman Empires of our own world. Might Tolkien have been inspired by the Roman Empire?

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🔴 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!) 👍 Subscribe to our videos FOR FREE! 📬 Contact us: maiorianus.sebastian@gmail.com We live in a time where it has become completely acceptable to change history, in order to fit an ideologically motivated narrative. Suddenly there were 50% legionaries of color serving in the roman army, suddenly women were awesome fighters that were regularly fighting in wars, every bit as capable as men, and suddenly the barbarian invaders of Rome were just poor refugees that peacefully settled within the Roman empire. And another such wishful thinking is that the dark ages were actually a quite nice time. Well, we have hard archeological evidence how drastically the living standards and technology declined in Britian, when the Roman legions left the island in 407 AD. Trade collapsed, technology vanished, and people were living again in conditions comparable to the bronze age. Diseases were rampant, barbarian raids killed many, and the Romano-Britons were driven to extinction by the Anglo-Saxons. We also have good first hand accounts that show that the collapse of the Roman Empire must have been like the apocalpyse. Such as the Life of Saint Severin by Eugippius, where we can read how the early dark ages must have been. Constant barbarian attacks, many people killed every day, degradation of living conditions, constant war, famine and diseases. But I guess, it's just nicer these days to believe what you want to believe.

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