The Roman Empire After the Fall to Present Day

The Roman Empire had lost its grip on its own land. The last emperor had been deposed and was replaced by Odoacer. The empire had already fallen into disarray and was replaced by a Germanic Kingdom. With that, darkness loomed over the land, and all Roman thought had been lost. Many Germans had moved into the territory, in which many Romans did not like. They hated every part of foreign rule by a barbarian. The Gothic Kings were very naïve to the discontent of the many Romans that lived there and preferred their own tribes instead. The Romans and Goths lived together like cats and dogs and often did not talk to each other.

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All throughout the Italian peninsula, life had changed really, really fast. Many of the buildings in Rome fell into disarray and an economic depression had plagued Roman society. Roman society was crumbling beneath its feet and running water had been missing. The Roman forum had been turned into a swine farm. People had started to live in shacks and many building materials were quarried from notable Roman buildings. Rome had went from an urban society to a very pastoral, rural society. Widespread poverty was a problem for both the Romans and the Goths. Trade had basically halted and done with land.



During that time, there were several mobs that always fought each other and certainly ethnic tensions. The Romans and the Goths did not reproduce and had been loyal to their race. It was rare for them to be friends with them. They always fought in the streets daily in the market. This caused discontent in the Italian peninsula. For years at a time, the riots at the Italian peninsula continued with no end in sight. About 10,000 people were murdered during that time and thousands more perished in the streets.



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I won't be too harsh as this is your first post... but I'd gently suggest you abandon this, and read some books on the subject: Peter Heather's The Fall of the Roman Empire and Chris Wickham's The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe 400-1000 are good starters.

A few quick points.

1. Odoacer was a Scirian, not a Goth, and was an officer in the Roman army prior to deposing Romulus Augustulus in 476 and stating he would only recognise the eastern Emperor Zeno as sole monarch of the Roman Empire. The Goths only came a decade later, as Zeno sought to deal with Gothic armies that had settled in the Roman Balkans following the collapse of the Hunnic Empire.

2. There's abundant evidence that Romans and incoming "barbarians" worked with each other: both groups needed one another. The incomers needed acceptance from the Roman landowners for legitimacy and administration of their kingdom, the Roman aristocrats needed the Germanics to protect the source of their wealth: ie, the land.

3. Urban contraction certainly did happen, but that was a gradual process, likely accelerated by repeated outbreaks of plague across Europe and the Mediterranean from the 540s onward. Trade also did decline somewhat, but again it didn't suddenly happen in 476, but a slow one that worked itself out between 450 and 650. It certainly never came close to drying up entirely.

4. Most Roman learning did survive, preserved by the Church.

In short, for your average "Roman on the Street", the year 477 didn't look particularly different to the year 475.
 
The Romans and the Goths did not reproduce and had been loyal to their race.
Half breeds were a thing, wherever there are human beings there will be mixing. Perhaps it was not a widespread cultural melding but to speak of the separation as if it was the law is just plain wrong.

The Roman forum had been turned into a swine farm. People had started to live in shacks and many building materials were quarried from notable Roman buildings
Sounds more like late middle ages, if any time. There was a time in Roman history where the city did have livestock in the streets, but it wasn't in the 5th century or any time close.
The empire had already fallen into disarray and was replaced by a Germanic Kingdom.
Disarray, you can say that, not many would disagree and I'm not one of them. But to say it was replaced by a Germanic kingdom is just ignorant, the Empire was no more Germanic under Odoacer than under Majorian or Romulus, the power in Italy had been in the hands of Barbarians for decades and there wasn't much of a change in the Empire. The Roman Empire was the Roman Empire under Theodosius and Under Odoacer with the differences lying in the political realities rather than any major demographic change in the empire. The Roman West persisted until the Heraclids lost Italy to the Lombards.
 
Pretty much what Baselius said. Many of the "Barbarian" kingdoms (especially the Ostrogoths) preserved Roman institutions remarkably well; ironically, the Byzantine reconquest of the Italian peninsula in the 6th century did a lot more to completely destroy what was left of the infrastructure. What little evidence we have of this period suggests that the barbarians wanted to live in Rome, not destroy it.
 
By 525 AD, a Roman uprising was very apparent in the air. The street riots had put the Italian peninsula at the brink of civil war. The Gothic King Theodoric had enough and had sent the army to the streets. The uprising was led by none other than Julius II of Mediolanum. Little is known of his early life but he was born in 495 A.D. the year the Western Roman Empire fell. He went to military school in France and learned some of the tactics there. He even rose to the ranks to become general. After his military school, he built his own army from scratch. His contemporaries known him as a ruthless Roman general.


At 532 AD, the Roman civil war, also known as the first Roman-Gothic War. Theodoric I had requested for the Germans to uprise. The difference was that the army of Julius II was well-funded and advanced and the Goths were not ready and their numbers were much smaller. In addition, the Romans had raided many Gothic cities and households, destroying everything into places. The Romans had also successfully cut off food supplies of the Germans. Some of the aristocracy, especially the Gothic households, were also burned down to the ground. Many of the Gothic lords were killed. War continued on for 3 more years


Finally, in March 8, 535, with almost all of the Goths subjugated, Julius II entered the city of Ravenna. They have been building fortresses around Ravenna in preparation for the attack. The Romans could easily bombard the city and had breached the walls. This was called the Sack of Ravenna. The walls had burned down easily due to the additional ammunition they had possessed. They also emptied the markets and burned many houses down. The Goths in the city were very powerless to these invasions and did nothing to stop it. The siege had happened all night and was a spectacle for the other towns to see. Many of the Goths in the city had already left. The living quarters of King Theodoric burned down as well.


So the Romans had won the war against the Ostrogothic kings, thus winning back Italy. The king was exiled to the Visigothic kingdom in Spain where he lived a quiet life in Cordoba and was granted asylum there. Most of the Goths had left for surrounding areas in France and Germany and left as refugees. The ones that stayed in Italy worked as serfs for the empire. This caused a turning point all over Europe, in which it caused a blow to barbarian power. Other barbarians tried to conquer them but failed to do so. Rome was determined to become a militaristic state. Lastly, they passed an edict allowing Germanic tribes never to visit Italy unless granted special permission.


News was heard over the country that the Eastern Roman Empire was trying to retake most of the territories of Rome. Many of the Romans were excited for this to happen, and often helped the Eastern Romans to invade other places. The country would be unified with the Eastern Roman Empire. The First Roman Unification happened with the Treaty of Spalatum (now modern-day Split, Croatia). There were celebrations all throughout the empire, thus launching the Eastern Golden Age which would last for about a century. The Province of Italia was proclaimed in Rome. Most of the infrastructure was rebuilt in Italy and everyone was happy. The reconquest of the Roman Empire was more successful and a lot better. Soon, they reconquered territories that were formerly part of the Roman Empire.



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