If Rome somehow survives the Huns...

Do we think that they'll have a bit of a reprieve on the frontiers? The Huns, of course, were the main drivers of all the pressures on the borders. Once they peter out, you've got the Avars, then the Bulgars, then the Magyars, and the various slavic tribes throughout all that. After you get past the Magyars, all thats left is the Norse

It seems that the Huns are *the* external threat to the Empire as a whole. Beyond them, there's not all that much to come along to knock down the West.
 
Well, and I know someone is going to say it, but the Romans DID survive the Guns, seeing as how both East and West outlived Atilla's realm.
 
Well, and I know someone is going to say it, but the Romans DID survive the Guns, seeing as how both East and West outlived Atilla's realm.

Yea. Plus it wasn't really the Huns themselves that the Romans had a problem with, not at least until Atilla. It was the effect the Huns had on the Romans' Germanic neighbors: They forced the Goths, the Vandals, the Alans, the Suebi, etc. to seek refuge across the Rhine. That set in motion the events that lead to the west's downfall.
 
Yes, its the pressure of the Huns displacing other tribes to which I refer in my supposition. None of the later steppe movements ever quite did that so well. Possibly because the later societies in between were more sedentary than the Germans of the 3-5th centuries.
 
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