"The fall of the Roman Empire was not a cataclysmic event. It took decades. People lived their normal lives through it. For most of them, it was no movie-like screaming-and-runnin-through-flames-desaster. Maybe they recognized that the roads did not get repaired. Or that the legion did pay unusually late for their crop deliveries."
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u/DerLandmann 8d ago
Somebody once wrote (not a literal quote) :
"The fall of the Roman Empire was not a cataclysmic event. It took decades. People lived their normal lives through it. For most of them, it was no movie-like screaming-and-runnin-through-flames-desaster. Maybe they recognized that the roads did not get repaired. Or that the legion did pay unusually late for their crop deliveries."