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Rome's dark night of tyranny: when the republic fell, Rome entered the dark decline of empire. Only after centuries of misery under predominantly tyrannical emperors did Rome finally meet its end.(History--Rome)
This is the ninth installment in a series of articles on the rise and fall of the Roman Republic.
In the fourth century of our era, the Danube River marked the northern frontier of the Roman Empire. To the north and east of the Danube, fierce Germanic and Scythian tribes roamed to the edges of the known world. Beyond them--according to the uncertain traditions of the ancients--lay a savage, frozen wilderness populated by the likes of the Geloni, who dressed in the skins of their slain enemies, and the Melanchlaenae, who fed on human flesh.
Immediately to the north of the eastern Danube were vast settlements of Goths, who by the mid-370s found themselves ...
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