Why Rome's West Lost Its Centre
In short: Lost provinces, shrinking tax revenue, near-constant civil war and powerful generals all played a part as central imperial rule ended in the Roman West while the East endured, and historians still disagree about what that ending meant.
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Sources used in this film: World History Encyclopedia, “Fall of the Western Roman Empire”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Romulus Augustulus | Last Roman Emperor, Deposed Emperor, Western Roman Empire | Britannica”; World History Encyclopedia, “Odoacer”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “North Africa - Vandals, Conquest, History | Britannica”; Academia.edu (hosting Ralph Mathisen, chapter in N. Lenski and J. W. Drijvers, eds., The Fifth Century: Age of Transformation, Edipuglia, 2019), ““The End of the Western Roman Empire in the Fifth Century CE: Barbarian Auxiliaries, Independent Military Contractors, and Civil Wars"”; Oxford University Press (OUPblog), “Civil war and the end of the Roman Empire”; Oxford University Press (OUPblog), “The Fall of Rome - an author dialogue”; Phys.org (reporting on a study from the HistoGenes project, published in Science), “Ancient DNA study of post-Roman Europeans reveals emergence of complex new society”.
Sources used in this film
- World History Encyclopedia — Fall of the Western Roman Empire · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Romulus Augustulus | Last Roman Emperor, Deposed Emperor, Western Roman Empire | Britannica · View →
- World History Encyclopedia — Odoacer · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — North Africa - Vandals, Conquest, History | Britannica · View →
- Academia.edu (hosting Ralph Mathisen, chapter in N. Lenski and J. W. Drijvers, eds., The Fifth Century: Age of Transformation, Edipuglia, 2019) — “The End of the Western Roman Empire in the Fifth Century CE: Barbarian Auxiliaries, Independent Military Contractors, and Civil Wars" · View →
- Oxford University Press (OUPblog) — Civil war and the end of the Roman Empire · View →
- Oxford University Press (OUPblog) — The Fall of Rome - an author dialogue · View →
- Phys.org (reporting on a study from the HistoGenes project, published in Science) — Ancient DNA study of post-Roman Europeans reveals emergence of complex new society · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Fall of the Western Roman Empire
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Romulus Augustulus | Last Roman Emperor, Deposed Emperor, Western Roman Empire | Britannica
- Also: World History Encyclopedia (worldhistory.org): Odoacer
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: North Africa - Vandals, Conquest, History | Britannica
- Also: Academia.edu (hosting Ralph Mathisen, chapter in N. Lenski and J. W. Drijvers, eds., The Fifth Century: Age of Transform: “The End of the Western Roman Empire in the Fifth Century CE: Barbarian Auxiliaries, Independent Military Contractors, and Civil Wars"
- Also: Oxford University Press (OUPblog): Civil war and the end of the Roman Empire
- Also: Oxford University Press (OUPblog): The Fall of Rome - an author dialogue
- Also: Phys.org (reporting on a study from the HistoGenes project, published in Science): Ancient DNA study of post-Roman Europeans reveals emergence of complex new society
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