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I would love to see a video of yours talking about Burdunelus and Petrus, two hispanoromans who revolted in the kingdom of the wisigoths, and some people think they tried to make a roman rump state in the tarraconensis, as a buffer state between the growing frankish kingdom and the wisigoths

I would like to say that in general I am glad that your channel exists and devotes so much time to telling the history of the late Roman Empire

I consider the fact that both Julius Nepos and Glycerius was alive at the time for Odoacers take over underpin just how little value was given to whoever was Emperor.

...a person once said that the fall of the western Roman empire was less an event and more of a process. That being the case, it's highly unlikely that any single or even couple events could have arrested that process...

great video as always, it is true, there are many turningpoints in History when things could have gone in the opposite direction, I believe 468 the attempt to retake Carthage from the Vandals is the main one. As Belisarius managed to conquer the entire North Africa in a few months with only 18.000 men, it is still difficult to urdestand how even only 30-50.000 did not in 468

My very favorite Rome Nerd history channel. Always enlightening....Far beyond just a listing of facts. Thank you Maiorianus,

The real descendants of the Romans are the Romance peoples such as the Italians, French, Spaniards, Portuguese and Romanians. There were also enclaves of the Western Roman Empire in the form of the Britto-Roman kingdoms of Gwynedd, Powys, Morgannwg and Rheged. Today they are modern Wales, which in turn is part of Great Britain!

Of course something fundamental did happen in 476. Rome was not burned down, and life didn't change completely overnight, but that doesn't mean that Odoacer's coup was just nothing. Odoacer didn't take the title of emperor and he didn't bother to have a puppet emperor on the throne. That is fundamental. He didn't bother to pay even lip service to the law. He did pay lip service to Zeno because Zeno could be a very real threat. There was no emperor in the West anymore and until Charlemagne there wouldn't be. There was no Roman Empire anymore in the West. Italy, first under Odoacer and later under the Ostrogoths, became a state like all others. That is fundamental. First there was a Roman Empire in the West and later there wasn't. You have to pick some date and 476 is the best candidate I think, because the title of Emperor disappeared at that date.

Great content as always Maiorianus. Do you ever plan to do a video about Eleutherius, the Exarch of italy that was almost declared the new emperor of the West by the Pope during the times of Heraclius? Or even Gregory, the Exarch of Africa that in the mid 7th Century declared himself the "Emperor of Africa", and was even invited to Rome by the Pope, before being defeated and killed by the newcoming arabs? Both can be considered the last two people to claim the western purple before Charlemagne

I find it funny how virtually all history KZfaqrs go on and on about how Rome falling in 476 is laughable and yet still animate and contend that Odoacer and Theodoric’s kingdoms were not in fact the Roman Empire

Great videos. I hope in the future you will get more recognition for them.

Appreciate this channel so much, never heard of these revolts before even though i've read books and watched a ton of videos on late roman history.

You should consider putting all of your articulate, informative, entertaining essays on the late Roman Empire, etc. into an on line and print book… You have the material, it just needs to be edited for publication, similar to what Told in Stone has done.

I’m gonna need to you to change that title to “Western Roman Empire” please 💅 this video as usual is a great watch so far. thanks for putting me on to The Last Legion

Learned much, as usual. Well visualized! Except, I think you mean the Fall was almost "averted", not "reverted."

If Julius Nepos took advantages of one of these rebellions and actually managed to reclaim the Italian peninsula, what's next? And by that, I mean will he decided to consolidate his reign first or will be decide to contact Syagrius' domain as soon as possible to provide help and reclaim it along with the rest of Gaul?

For Maiorianus, for the glory of Rome!

I just queued up The Last Legion film to watch, I don’t know how I missed it before! It even has little ”Rafe Sadler” as RomulusAugustulus. (I forget his real name, but he was great later as Rafe in Wolf Hall). I hope it’s a good watch, but if not, I’ll enjoy looking at the scenery, sets and costumes.

This is why a show styled in Game of Thrones but showing pure history of the early Middle Ages before the dark ages. The Romans, the Germans, the old systems that fell while new ones were formed. Fascinating to watch

This commercial😂 I imagined Odoacer with his beard and big sword sitting behind PC.

Thank you for another informative video full of interesting insights. I do feel the need to point out one detail, though, since it was repeated so many times in this video: You may want to look up the pronunciation of the verb form of the word "rebel". It's not the same as the pronunciation of the noun form of the same word, which you seem to be assuming.

I’ve almost finished Adrian Goldsworthy’s How Rome Fell, on Audible. Audible doesn’t have a good history selection, but they do have most of this author’s, fortunately. It’s definitely worth reading, I learned a lot, but will listen a second time. It’s full of detail and well-written, without too much boring history of the Church, but has the usual abominable Latin and Greek pronunciation by the reader, a guaranteed defect in Audible books. Because the reader is British, not American like me, I can’t figure out all the Latin/Greek names he uses, he doesn’t pronounce Rs or Hs, but sticks them in where there aren’t any. He seems to be attempting the Italian of a thousand years later, he’d be better off imitating Catalan, it’s a lot closer to Latin pronunciation. But, I think I dozed off here and there, as I tend to do to listening to even exciting books in the evening. Waking up between 1:00 and 4:00 am as I do, my body just doesn’t want to stay awake at 8:00 pm, however much my brain wants to! I still have a nice, juicy stack of Dr. Goldsworthy’s books queued up to listen to.

Where do you get the compelling images? Are they still from movies or TV shows? The tell the story all by themselves!

5:07 ; and you know What ELSE would have been difficult for Odoaker? MY MOM!

Thanks!

You're channel is perfect

You videos are awesome man, good fucking job!

Excellent Vídeo.

Can you please make a video on how Rome would have looked like with Belisarius conquest? 😊

I am always hesitant to comment here, because I don't want to be redundant, and that you very likely covered the information in another video, you are so so very thorough. But I will give it a shot. This summer, and autumn I was in a Rome frenzy, reading and re-reading four books at once (Peter Heather, Bryan Ward Perkins,Chris Wickham and Adrian Goldsworthy.) Haven't many historians revised the assumptions that have been made for very very long about Romulus Augustulus, Orestes and even Odavacar? Orestes had played king maker for a decade, and he could not take the throne himself because he was too close genealogically to his barbarian roots - I'm not sure which group of barbarians he was descended from at this moment, but there were a few… His troops,and the the diffeyrent forces of which you speak, holding Italy at that time, were of such mixed composition that it was impossible to tell which army was the most "Roman" and which wasn't? These forces were a farrago of subjects, citizens and foedorati from every corner of the empire and its periphery, with Germanics as the majority and in most leadership positions.... Wouldn't that explain the game that the Senate played at this time: they wouldn't be as interested in which usurper had the most Roman or Germanic name, but which force was the least likely to sack the city, which had suffered three already in that century? Allegedly. Odavacar sent the imperial regalia to Constantinople, not directly usurping rule in Italy, but nearly saying "there was no need for a new western emperor,” that there was only one emperor in Constantinople he answered to... I know he minted coins that bore his name, image, and the word "Rex", which, of course, means king, and in this case, he was very specifically talking about the province of Italy, rather than a people, or a nation (as Alaric had been and Theoderic would be), I guess positioning himself as a proper "client king”, unlike the Visigoths and the vandals It all gets incredibly murky, and doesn't really sort itself out until the Ostrogoths make their appearance.... It is this very ambivalence that Justinian exploits in the sixth century, to justify his devastating invasion of Italy and the year of 476 suddenly takes on paramount importance/---I think it was Procopius, who wrote it---and it was all done in the spirit of propaganda that would lay the foundation for Justinian's reconquest , and out of the chaos of the late fifth century, 476 was put forward as something concrete, for the sake of clarity and agitprop? That year became emblematic of the great "fall of Rome" ...to Barbarians....

please do more videos

Ave amici. I got something i don't understand about late Western Roman Empire, Why it was so vulnerable for Barbarian invasions? Were not there forts on borders and especially in the Alps? If not, than Why Romans didn't build something like Adrian wall?

Where do you get all this information?

The clothes in this movie Last Legion were right? Or the senate should be wearing more late empire style?

Summary 0:00: 🏛 이 비디오는 서구 로마 제국이 476년에 무너지는 과정과 그 주변 상황, 다양한 개인 및 당파의 역할에 대해 논의합니다. 4:04: 💻 로마의 몰락은 동로마 제국이 그 이후 100년 동안 번창했기 때문에 역사책에서 정확하게 묘사되지 않습니다. 11:15: 👑 로마 제국에서 게르만족 지배자들의 부상과 몰락. 15:19: 🏛 이 비디오는 불확실하고 중대한 로마 제국의 사건들을 논의하며, 역사의 작은 변화가 미치는 영향을 강조합니다. Recapped using Tammy AI

Maiorianus is the pre eminent historian of our generation.

The biggest problem is that The Romans never had a philosophy like Ruism and Legalism to keep that monstrous empire together. The Chinese had it and their empire only ended in 1912.

Great docs. I would like to only mention that those AI photos, etc look hideous. Would look much better with animations :-)

For Late Antiquity and the Migration Era I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's content

If Adaric or Bracila or Nepos had succeeded Rome would still be an Empire. Justinian would have assisted the heir of Julius Nepos to destroy the Vandals and the Visigoths as Justinian did utilizing Narses and Bellisarius ef in our timeline. Then the Franks would intervene in Italy as they did in our timeline. They would have been utterly defeated and Belisarius would have occupied Gaul and reestablish the Rhine frontiers. The Romans would also conquer entire Spain. In Britain a small expeditionary force would have turned the Celtic kingdoms into client states and totally expel the pagan Angles and Saxons. Theodoric would have been confined to Pannonia and Dacia and create a great Ostrogothic Empire there, until the arrival of the Slavs and the Avars. The combined Ostrogothic and Roman force would have kept Slavs and Avars at bay. Central Europe would be partitioned between Slavs - Avars, Ostrogoths and Lombards in Noricum. The former Western Empire would be restored with the exception of Noricum and northern England. Great Britain would be a Celtic land until the arrival of the Vikings two centuries later and Rome would defeat the Persians and the Arab Muslims due to its power. Islam would be an obsolete religion by now. So in hindsight that bastard Odoacer really shaped the modern world..

Rome didn't fall in 476 It did in 1453

Be it 476 or 2023, welcome to the world of politics.

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I don't think I've ever seen a video of yours more infused with intrusive, excessive, prolonged commercials than this one.

Thanks!