Why did the German Tribes Start Migrating?

Why did The German Tribes Start Migrating?

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[Knowledgia]

Imagine you were an advisor to the Roman Empire in its final years. What strategies would you propose to prevent its fall in the West?

[miliba]

Germanic Tribes are still migrating. Nowadays they mostly go to an island called Mallorca

[Torfin]

Historians usually agree that the massive immigration of barbarians to Roman territory was caused by an enormous drop in temperatures and Hunnic attacks. Therefore, it is safe to say that stirrups and lack of coats caused the fall of Rome.

[Nabonidus-mx]

"Germanic tribes are not sending us their best! They send us their criminals. Some I assume are good people."

[TetsuShima]

And all of this just because Tiberius said: "Who cares about stupid Germany?"

[theirishshane]

Hundred and twenty million people sounds a bit to much for the western Roman empire

[lethalbroccoli]

"these germanic tribes shared many similiarities with the vikings as well." Am i missing something? "Vikings" are germanic already. Why did the video talk about vikings as if they werent germanic?

[seanwebb]

If there wasn't enough land to farm in Germanic territory then why didn't they just go into IT and become coders?

[christianeaster]

Looking for unpopulated land? The Roman empire was more densely populated than the lands they came from.

[ziqiding]

My favourite part is when the germanic tribes said "it's migratin' time" and proceeded to migrate all over the roman empire

[dukeon]

Fun fact: The largest diaspora of Germans today (people of Germanic descent living outside of Germany itself) is in the United States. It is the most prevalent ethnicity in the US, mostly due to the waves of German immigrants in the 19th century who settled in the Great Lakes area (think beer and pretzels) as well as the plains states. My grandparents grew up speaking German at home in rural Kansas, farming and raising livestock. Much of the middle and north of the country is still predominantly German ethnically (as well as Polish and Scandinavian), while English ancestry clusters mostly in the eastern third of the country, and Irish and Italian communities tended to remain predominantly in cities. There have been many other waves of immigrants too, obviously, such as Chinese, Jews, Russians (and Slavs in general), Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Filipinos, Southeast Asians, and on and on. It’s what made the USA such a vibrant nation culturally and economically.

[carlharmeling]

A lot of Northerners still migrate south because they’re sick and tired of the cold weather.

[ytchanviewer]

Low quality popularisation of history : a bunch of maps displayed in arbitrary order without dates, frequent use of dubious terms like "ferocious" and "savages", use of teleology, etc. If there's a bingo card of how *not* to popularise European history from the 300s-500s, this proboably ticks all the boxes.
If anyone wants good history videos on this topic, The Historian's Craft is a much better YouTube channel.

[Maphisto]

Ironically the Ostrogothic Kingdom in Italy under the reign of Theodoric the Great was better governed and prosperous than under the last Roman emperors.

Despite the weaknesses of King Theodoric’s successors, the Ostrogoth administration maintained Roman civilization in Italy and it could be argued that ancient Roman civilization in its old homeland was destroyed with the devastation wrought by the eastern Roman Empire’s invasion during the Gothic War.

[HarryMonn]

120 million is way too much for the population of the Western Empire. Scholars generally think the entire empire never exceeded 75 million. So the Western half probably had around half of that. The first empire to reach 100 million in population was Tang China.

[ImBalance]

The Western Roman Empire had 120 MILLION people?? Does that not seem super high to others?

[Sargon]

Population of Roman Empire 120 million? In 4th century I don't think it was half of that. And in time of sack of Rome by Alaric Ravenna was a capital.

[hectorcardenas]

Germanics wanted a taste of civilization, arts, much better weather and great food.

[abdiyusuf]

And today these once mighty warriors are controlled by a small state in the Middle East 😢

[timhare]

Your numbers here feel well off. Most Censuses I’ve seen to the Roman Empire’s around 60 million. Not 120 million. It’s very difficult to gain a reliable estimate of Germania’s population at the same time, but 3 million sounds ridiculously low. Like an ancient historian has just counted warriors and their familles, and not the vast network of tenant farmers, slaves and their families beneath them.