World history textbooks only state that "after the death of Emperor Theodosius, Rome split into east and west, and the Western Roman Empire was destroyed in 476 by mercenary captain Odoacer."
This description seems to be common all over the world, and there are few history textbooks that explain how the Roman Empire was destroyed.
But I think.
I wonder if there is a true lesson in its destruction more than the rise of the empire.
This time, I would like to explain in detail the destruction of the Roman Empire, which is never mentioned in textbooks.
In fact, the fall of the Roman Empire and the decline of Japan have much in common.
The era of Honorius, the dark prince of the century (395-423)
In Roman history, tyrants such as Nero and Commodus have a presence, but Honorius is far worse than those emperors, just unobtrusive.
With the death of Emperor Theodosius, Rome was divided into east and west by his two sons. It was Honorius, the second son of 10 years old, who became the weaker Western Roman Emperor.
Theodosius had asked a general named Stilicho, who had the blood of the Vandals during his lifetime, to assist Honorius.
Married to Theodosius' niece, the general fought desperately to stop the decline of the Roman Empire. While being disturbed by all kinds of opposition, he managed to stop the invasion of other peoples and try to keep the country alive.
However, Honorius died at Stilicho, the last Roman general.
It's like Johnny's office that forced the meritorious SMAP to dissolve.
There were many enemies in Stilicho. In particular, they are court bureaucrats and eunuch officials who have vested interests, and Senators of Rome. In modern times, parliamentarians and bureaucrats are also messing with Japan, but so was ancient Rome.
Honorius believed in the eunuch official's praise, Olympius, and assumed that Stilicho was aiming for the throne.
If Stilicho wanted to aim for the throne, he could have done it. But if he was a loyal vassal. No matter how stupid he was or how irresistible an empire he was, he did not go against it.
Stilicho chose to commit suicide at the behest of the emperor.
It was the Roman enemies, such as the Germanic and Huns, who were pleased with Stilicho's death.
After all, the biggest enemy, the only capable enemy, is gone. This meant that you could troll the Roman territory at will.
The stupid Honorius and Olympius executed the captive barbarians in such a terrible way that they could not be written here. As a result, the Germanic people who live in Roman territory seek protection and sneak into the permission of Alaric, the King of the Visigoths.
Alaric fought three times against Stilicho and lost three times, but Stilicho was just too strong and Alaric was not weak. The Visigoths devastated the Roman territory where the master was gone.
No matter how much the territory was trolls, Honorius refused to send troops. Alaric finally settled in Rome, robbing, committing, burning and destroying.
This is the second time that the capital, Rome, has been overrun since Rome was founded in the 8th century BC.
In 390 BC, Rome was invaded by the Gauls. After that, the Gauls were expelled by the hero Camillus, who is said to be the second founder of Rome, and succeeded in regaining Rome.
But Camillus is gone. Stilicho, who can defeat Alaric, is dead. He was killed by the Roman emperor.
Alaric quickly pulled up when he robbed all of Rome of the gold. The reason why the barbarians are barbarians is that they only rob them and do not rule.
At this time, Honorius' sister Galla Platedia was taken away and became the queen of Alaric's son Athaulf.
The great thing about Honorius is that he didn't do anything during this time. The Roman emperor is the commander-in-chief of his army, Imperator, but Honorius probably thought it was his own safety. He withdrew to the court in Ravenna and did nothing really. Meanwhile, the people of Rome fled from Rome.
While doing so, Alaric died of illness.
And in 423, Honorius died without doing anything.
Meanwhile, the Germanic people succeeded in controlling Gaul, Spain, and Germania.
It can be said that Honorius should be praised by the Germanic people as the person who succeeded in Germanizing more than anyone else!
The Age of Valentian III and Galla Platina (424-455)
Galla Platinum plundered by the Visigoths However, as a result of negotiations with the Visigoths, he was forgiven to return to Rome. Valentian III was born in the marriage of Roman general Constantius.
After Honorius, who had no children, it was the time of this emperor, but since the third generation was 6 years old at this time, a typical political politics would start.
However, Galla was completely ill-advised, and all the policies were random.
She was rampaging in Roman territory Aetius As the commander of the Roman army.
Aetius spent his childhood as a hostage to the Visigoths and Huns led by Alaric, and had connections with the barbarians.
Bonifatius to the person who emerged during this period There is a person who says. This person was a powerful general in North Africa, and there were rumors that he was trying to seize the throne.
Galla orders Bonifatius to summon in the name of her little emperor, but is refused, and both are in combat.
Galla sent her subjugation army to North Africa but was defeated, sent the army again but failed again, Bonifatius side thought about strengthening the armament to invade Rome, and borrowed the help of the Vandals who were rampaging in Spain It was to be.
But this was unpleasant. Vandal King Genserick has led about 100,000 Vandals across the Strait of Gibraltar. The number is much higher than the number of Bonifatius soldiers, and Bonifatius who felt the crisis abandoned North Africa and went into exile in Italy.
The remaining Vandals have devastated the land of North Africa.
At this time, the wealthy fled to Italy, but those who did not remained on the land and were under the control of the Vandals.
The Vandals believed in Arian Christianity and were treated as heretics by Catholics. However, the Arianism is still more powerful, and in North Africa, Roman citizens of the Arianism colluded with the Vandals and became violent. Archbishop of Carthage Augustine , known for authors such as "The Kingdom of God" at this time. Has died, and his body has been transferred to Sardinia by a wealthy man for fear of looting.
Hell may also depend on money.
Since one-third of the wheat in Rome came from North Africa, the loss of supply was an indication that the lifeline of Rome had been destroyed. In addition, the Vandals will absorb North African shipbuilding techniques and troll the Mediterranean as pirates.
At about the same time, the Huns began to invade Gaul from the north.
Battle of the Huns, Attila, and Catalaunum
Attila Roman commander Aetius, who joined forces with the Huns and the Germanic coalition of the Visigoths and Franks, fought in Catalaunum in 451. , Succeeded in repelling the Huns, but the defeated Attila turned his troops to Rome and tried to plunder.
At this time, Aetius did not move, nor did the Roman emperor.
Instead, the Pope and the Roman Senate moved.
It is said by the Christian side to "persuade Leo I", and the barbarian Attila changed his mind by the word of the god of Pope Leo I. However, it is said that he actually paid a considerable amount of compensation.
Either way, Attila left Italy and soon died.
The death of the general and the death of the emperor
Perhaps he thought it was obsolete because he had repelled the Huns, Valentian III went to Rome to meet Aetius, and the emperor himself killed Aetius on the spot.
After more than 20 years of fighting the barbarians, Aetinus won many victories, but ended his life with the help of his supposed ally, the Roman emperor.
Also, the number of people who can fight has decreased.
Six months later, Valerintianus III was murdered by soldiers who were subordinates of Aetianus.
In the long 30 years, all he had to do was kill Aethinus and diminish his national power.
The regime called Theodosius dynasty, which started with Theodosius, has ceased.
20 years until the fall of the Roman Empire.
Time accelerates!
And to destruction
During the 20 years from the assassination of Valentian III to the destruction of the Roman Empire, as many as eight emperors were born.
I was wondering who would be the emperor, so I made a person named Petronius Maximus of the Senate sect the emperor.
The only thing that happened during this emperor's day was that the Vandals from the south devastated Rome.
Maximus, who tried to escape, was killed by an angry crowd.
His reign was only three months.
It is said that the looting by the Vandals was carried out smoothly with the promise of not looting Christian facilities under the agreement with Pope Leo I.
The next emperor was a person named Avitus.
It is doubtful whether this person can be listed as a Roman emperor. After all, he was embraced by the emperor in the land of Gallia. Moreover, he supported the Visigoths.
The emperor ruled Rome at the time and was murdered by bureaucrats who were vested interests.
The bureaucrats set the emperor a man named Mayorinus who could manipulate it at his own discretion.
When he became an emperor, he tightened restrictions on bureaucrats. The bureaucrats may have noticed that they are like cancer that is eating up the country like modern Japan.
The emperor has left Italy and is heading to North Africa to conquer the Vandals. And he is easily defeated by the Vandals. Moreover, he was defeated by the Vandals burning a warship under construction before the battle, which emptied Rome's treasury.
Mayorinus was assassinated by his men on his frustrating return to Rome.
The next emperor was a person named Severus.
At this time, one of the bureaucrats, Ricimer, was in control and existed as a kingmaker.
He takes power behind the scenes without revealing himself.
No country has prospered in such a cowardly country.
Severus is said to have died in 465 after four years of reign. The story of Ricimer's assassination is deeper than it was today, but again there is no evidence.
The person named Ricimer was a pure Germanic, his father was from the Sveni tribe, and his mother was from the Visigoths.
After the death of Severus, the Roman emperor was named Anthemius.
This person is an emperor appointed by Byzantine emperor Pope Leo I, who led an army into Rome, has been approved by the Senate, and the Pope also wears a crown on top of it.
Ricimer welcomed the daughter of Anthemius to his wife, where the first Allied Forces of the Roman Empire of East and West were formed.
However, I lost easily.
Ricimer and Anthemius squeezed each other from beginning to end, and were slaughtered by the Vandal king Genserick, who had a plow for them.
Following this defeat, the Byzantine Empire completely abandoned the Western Roman Empire. Of course, in terms of economic power, the Byzantine Empire was overwhelmingly advantageous, and there is no blood connection anymore. Even the in-law to help could not be found on the eastern side.
The abandoned form of Anthemius challenges the fight against Ricimer for the supremacy of Western Rome.
Anthemius dies in July 472 AD.
And in August Ricimer died.
A person named Oliverius becomes the emperor, but he died in October.
Ricimer and Olivurius are said to have died of illness.
Immediately after this, the emperor was named Glycerius, but the Byzantine Empire said that Julius Nepos would be the emperor. Nepos didn't seem to like it at all, and he wouldn't go to Rome at all. With that chance, a person named Orestes is his son Romulus Augustus . Succeeded in taking the throne.
The Senate approves the inauguration of Romulus's emperor, who was only 15 years old.
Taking this opportunity, Odoacer, who leads a Germanic mercenary unit, demands that Orestes pay an unpaid salary. In the battle with Orestes, Orestes was killed in action after being defeated twice, Odoacer entered the land of Ravenna, where the emperor lived, and the last emperor Romulus Augustus was deposed.
The last emperor was Romulus, the founder of Rome, and Augustus, who established the empire.
Romulus is said to have fulfilled his natural life in Italy without any particular execution.
There is often debate about whether Romulus can be considered the last emperor. Julius Nepos, appointed by the Byzantine emperor, was in the throne until his death in 480.
However, the Roman emperor should be the one recognized by the Senate.
In that respect, it can be said that the last Roman emperor was Romulus Augustus.
Rome, founded by Romulus in 753 BC, died in 476 AD.
The Byzantine Empire will continue until 1453, but since Rome is no longer a territory and will be treated as the Byzantine Empire in this blog, I would like to say that Rome was destroyed in 476.
Odoacer, who destroyed Rome, did not become the Roman emperor himself, but returned the throne to Pope Leo I and vowed to become his vassal.
It can be said that the Pope has virtually controlled the Germanic people, and even now in the 21st century, their power is not lost or even stronger than at that time.
In that sense, Rome may not have been destroyed yet.
Or maybe Rome was dead earlier.
In any case, everything that was born in Rome is influencing modern society.
The person dies.
However, there is something that is inherited beyond space-time.
Rome is said to have won the world three times.
First in military power, then in law, and finally in Christianity.
In that sense, Rome may not truly perish unless humanity perishes.
Thinking about the destruction of Rome
It was December 29, 2018 that I wrote an article about the first Roman King Romulus. And until March 26, 2019, we have treated so many Romans historically. When I noticed, the number of articles about Rome alone exceeded 100, but the history of Rome, which is treated as a history, is now complete.
To be honest, I'm pretty tired.
If it's a novel, it's going to get excited towards the end, but history doesn't. This is because the dynasty that reached its heyday will be miserably destroyed at the end.
In Rome, it was in its heyday during the time of Trajan, and only declined thereafter.
Nevertheless, Rome has been resurrected many times, and when it is about to perish, someone has repeatedly rebuilt it.
In the Punic Wars, he defeated the overwhelming power of Carthage, and Hannibal forced him to Italy, but many heroes appeared and escaped the destruction. Caesar appeared when the civil war began, and Octavian established an imperial government for hundreds of years. .. Even though Nero and others finally appeared on the way, Vespasian and the Five Good Emperors appeared, and even though they reached their heyday, they entered the military emperor era after evil emperors such as Commodus and Karakala, and if they think that they will be destroyed. Emperor Arrelianus and others came out and revived, and reformers like Emperor Diocletian appeared.
When did Rome perish?
In all textbooks and blogs around the world, it is dated to 476 AD.
However, I personally think that Rome began to perish during the time of Constantine.
It can be said that Rome ended her role the moment Rome was abandoned, a new city was created in Constantinople, and many Christian institutions were built there.
And I think it was only when Emperor Theodosius destroyed all the cultures of Rome that he was completely destroyed.
The moment Yupiteru, the guardian deity of Rome, was found guilty, Rome was destroyed.
As you can see, Rome after Theodosius was declining.
Eunuch officials and bureaucrats took control and ate up Rome with the Senate, who became a vested interest.
The moment the emperor himself executed Stilicho, the last hero, the hope of Rome's revival was cut off.
Once upon a time there were no vested interests in Rome. To protect the country, Roman citizens were willing to take direct tax on military service and fight for themselves.
At the end of the Empire, no one was trying to protect the country anymore.
It is ironic that it was Stilicho, the blood of the Germanic people, who finally protected the country with the Roman Spirit.
The destruction of Rome is not a fire on the opposite bank.
What is happening in the book today is similar to the process of the fall of the Roman Empire.
The administration is bloated, and bureaucrats and members of parliament who only think about protecting vested interests prey on the country, and we are forced to bear an unreasonable burden.
People are disappointed by the politicians and just watch over their decline.
At the end of the Roman Empire, Rome's population was less than one-tenth of its heyday.
Everyone abandoned Rome.
As of now, only talented human resources are flowing out of Japan.
The state of this country and the decline of Rome are so similar that it is impossible to turn away from it.