The Fall of Rome Explained In 13 Minutes

The Fall of Rome/Fall of the Roman Empire marked a pivotal point in human history and ended Roman power in the west 1,000 years after the city’s foundation. The Roman empire, towards the end of its lifetime, could not stop the relentless barbarian attacks that chipped away at its borders until, by the time of Romulus, there was little more than Italy left. While the Eastern half of the empire, known as the Byzantine Empire, survived until 1453, the Western Roman Empire crumbled in the 5th century, never to be seen again.

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Introduction 0:16
The Gothic War 1:00
Alaric - King of the Visigoths 2:17
Roma The Chicken 3:53
The Fall of the West 4:07
Kingdom of the Visigoths 5:23
A New Power 6:04
The Downfall of Size 6:53
The Western Economy 7:50
The Integration of Soldiers 8:37
Ineffective leadership 9:25
The Role of Christianity 10:20
The Legacy of Rome 11:20

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Time Stamps 📽
Introduction 0:16
The Gothic War 1:00
Alaric - King of the Visigoths 2:17
Roma The Chicken 3:53
The Fall of the West 4:07
Kingdom of the Visigoths 5:23
A New Power 6:04
The Downfall of Size 6:53
The Western Economy 7:50
The Integration of Soldiers 8:37
Ineffective leadership 9:25
The Role of Christianity 10:20
The Legacy of Rome 11:20

[crowdedboss]

Me in class: B O R I N G


Me 10 years later: *Interesting*

[drivenbyrage]

Those who forget the past, are doomed to repeat it.

[ChaniTsunami]

It's funny, Rome at its peak almost looks like a futuristic society compared to now, with their beautiful architecture and city planning. We lost a lot from that society.

[kenosentity]

The more I look at the vises that lead the fall of Rome, the more I realize that history isn't so much removed from us as we would like to imagine...

[l.t.]

Rome didn't only fall to external threats, they fell from within as well. They became politically and and morally corrupt.

[Deagle-ljtv]

World history is far more interesting than any fiction

[homedepotdad]

Hmm the fall of Rome starting to look real familiar in the U.S

[martyc]

Rome fell harder than my grades in 7th grade

[HearMeRawls]

Isn't it ironic, that the last western Roman emperor had the same name as the founder of Rome?

[damenwhelan]

Romulus saw Rome rise.
Romulus saw Rome fall.

[luisnavarrete]

I like to think that it’s so cool that all the history in the world happened under the same sun, the sun sees all. Don’t mind me really baked rn 🤧

[ThatNixfan]

Are we going to ignore that a Roman emperor heard the legendary city Rome had fallen and he was like
Oh thanks god my chickens alright

[patricktoussaint]

moral of the story... no one stay on top forever

[Borat]

Rome is such and amazing example of both extreme glory and disaster .... They actually managed to upgrade the entire empire and all its neighbors to unprecedented levels of social and economic upgrades ... But lost it all in the due to internal strife and foreign invasions. When Rome fell everything went rapidly backwards instead of forwards

[TetsuShima]

Romulus' story broke my soul. An 11-year-old boy who, instead of having fun and enjoying his youth like people of his age, was forced to become the last leader of a crumbling Empire, only to be kidnapped, humiliated and imprisoned for life by a bunch of barbarians. Even though he was just a puppet who didn't do anything remarkable, Romulus deserves a lot more respect than other emperors like Caligula or Nero. I just hope God has him in his glory 😔

[willbrink]

The parallels to the US never fail to astound me. The barbarians are at the gate, but the gate will fall due to internal failures...

[TheBasedBalkan]

I would love to learn everything about Rome from the beginning to the end. An astonishing empire that lasted for over 1000 years. That’s just crazy.

[ZyKLonBē]

Definitely America’s future, at least a possibility of what could happen. It may happen sooner than we think

[josebalcazar]

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within." — W. Durant

“The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you”
— Christopher Hitchens