![]() ![]() Military defenses along the Rhine collapsed, allowing other Germanic peoples to ransack Gaul before occupying large portions of Spain. Yet by 415, a heterogeneous force of wandering Germanic tribesmen had taken Rome itself and pillaged it. ![]() ![]() None of its neighbors came close to matching its population of seventy million or its significant economic development. Its military probably numbered well over four hundred thousand soldiers. The empire extended from the ramparts of Hadrian’s Wall to the deserts of northern Mesopotamia, and from the deltas of the Rhine and Danube to the valleys of the Atlas Mountains. In 375, the Roman Empire appeared as strong and secure as it had been in its four-hundred-year history. Heather, (Oxford University Press, 2006), $40. MHQ Book Review: The Fall of the Roman Empire Close ![]()
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