I was thinking about patterns in history and was thinking about the fall of Rome. We all learn about the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, but I don’t recall ever learning about the time in between. Sure, Rome’s empire collapsed, but what happened next? City-states? A hollowed-out Republic? Anarchy? Did the goths raid and pillage everything? Did they just go back north? Did they settle in? I wanna know
Immediately following the fall of the Western Roman Empire Odoacer actually pretty much ran things business as usual and operated as a vassal of Rome (the Eastern half of the Empire still remained)