I like art like picrel. I don't know why it appeals to me so much. But anyway, let's post depictions and info about the city of Rome after the fall of the western empire.
Rome after 476
I like art like picrel. I don't know why it appeals to me so much. But anyway, let's post depictions and info about the city of Rome after the fall of the western empire.
It wasn't a fall, it was disintegration that took generations. Odoacer becoming the emperor wasn't any weirder than Obama becoming president. He ruled like just another Roman emperor, he was just ethnically german.
I know. I just couldn't think of a very concise and attention catching way to word it. I would have said "Rome in the 6th century" but I'm interested in a somewhat broader period on both sides.
The emperor just moved
>It wasn't a fall, it was disintegration that took generations.
well no
There are modern cities that have shrunk at faster rates than your picrel. Often just for a coal vein being fully mined out or a river running dry.
Basically Germanics had formed their own ghettos in the Roman cities, eventually they couldnt form respectable empires under one banner, the medieval age that came later was heavily divided
In the feudal system kings had the highest authority; then came duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron.
Germanics built taller stone buildings than Romans ever did. Romans never built anything taller than the pyramids. The Germanics were the first people on Earth to build buildings taller than even our tallest monuments.
>Germanics
no such thing ever existed
Even during the height of the empire most of the people from within the walls of the cities were illiterate peasant tier laborers competing with slaves for income. Even skilled tradesmen, engineers and artisans were being rugpulled often enough. This despotic financial and cultural consolidation was why emperors ever had popular support.
By the time of the collapse, they were not even the same people as those inhabiting the Italian countryside, those most genetically similar to those who actually built the city and maintained Rome at its zenith (which was financial parasitism based on war btw). Like Amerimutt chuds with a fully white grandparent, every nafri goblino in the cities touted whatever Italian ancestry they may have had. They were more southern and eastern shifted, not clustering with people from the North. Lombards, Goths and Franks were clustering closer to southern euros at that point than to their paternal forbearers.
With the collapse of the traditional Roman military (thus the state and the state's values, the state's Gods even) traditions in masonry and practical engineering declined with them. And Germanics were not urbanites. The people living in those cities fled to the Barbarian States because life was genuinely better, nutrition and lifestyle was better, the values of the people were better than the MENA-rotted rubble of old that some Germanics were heroically trying to maintain for them, for a time.
>Chair.jpg
All true. People who don't understand the full history of Rome will have no idea how true this post actually is.
Excellent post.
Two small corrections:
>And Germanics were not urbanites
The Germanics and Celts both had walled cities going back to 1,000BC at latest, but these structures were nowhere near the size of the mass urbanization of Italy, and were mostly centered around exporting goldwork and ironwork to the Mediterranean. The majority of the Germanic and Celtic population, however, did not live in these cities.
>The people living in those cities fled to the Barbarian States
The Italians living in the countryside fled to the Germanic states, but the Nafris and Levantines went back to Nafrica and the Levant, or moved to Byzantium.
I'm pretty sure that guys art is from the 10th century tbh.
I did some digging and I douns sone links to cool art.
https://johncristiani.blogspot.com/2014/03/rome-imperial-fora.html
https://www.inklink.it/portfolio/cripta-balbi/
One of the artist's name is R. Meneghini.
Thanks anon
gotchu op
SOVL vs SOUL
Jesus Christ, so depressing. Imagine how many buried villa's exist like Nero's under modern Rome that archeologists still haven't found.
That picture has more soul than Rome did in it's entire history.
oh to drove your herd through the ruins of rome