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Rome fell September 4, 476AD.
It was overrun with illegal immigrants: Visigoths, Franks, Anglos,
Saxons,
Ostrogoths, Burgundians, Lombards, Jutes and Vandals, who at first
assimilated and worked as servants, but then came so fast they did not
learn
the Latin Language or the Roman form of government.
Highly trained Roman Legions moving rapidly on their advanced road
system,
were strained fighting conflicts worldwide.
Rome had a trade deficit, having outsourced most of its grain
production to
North Africa, and when Vandals captured that area, Rome did not have
the
resources to retaliate.
Attila the Hun was committing terrorist attacks.
The city of Rome was on welfare with citizens being given free bread.
One
Roman commented: "Those who live at the expense of the public funds are
more
numerous than those who provide them."
Tax collectors were "more terrible than the enemy."
Gladiators provided violent entertainment in the Coliseum.
There was injustice in courts, exposure of unwanted infants,
infidelity,
immorality and perverted bathhouses.
5th-Century historian Salvian wrote:
"O Roman people be ashamed...Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of
our
bad lives have alone conquered us."
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It was overrun with illegal immigrants: Visigoths, Franks, Anglos,
Saxons,
Ostrogoths, Burgundians, Lombards, Jutes and Vandals, who at first
assimilated and worked as servants, but then came so fast they did not
learn
the Latin Language or the Roman form of government.
Highly trained Roman Legions moving rapidly on their advanced road
system,
were strained fighting conflicts worldwide.
Rome had a trade deficit, having outsourced most of its grain
production to
North Africa, and when Vandals captured that area, Rome did not have
the
resources to retaliate.
Attila the Hun was committing terrorist attacks.
The city of Rome was on welfare with citizens being given free bread.
One
Roman commented: "Those who live at the expense of the public funds are
more
numerous than those who provide them."
Tax collectors were "more terrible than the enemy."
Gladiators provided violent entertainment in the Coliseum.
There was injustice in courts, exposure of unwanted infants,
infidelity,
immorality and perverted bathhouses.
5th-Century historian Salvian wrote:
"O Roman people be ashamed...Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of
our
bad lives have alone conquered us."
___
For Endnotes, books, or to contact Bill Federer about speaking, visit
www.AmericanMinute.com P.O. Box 20163, St. Louis, MO 63123
1-888-USA-WORD,
314-487-4395, wjfederer@aol.com
FREE-ADD THE AMERICAN MINUTE TO YOUR WEBSITE. See
www.amerisearch.net/feed.asp
AMERICAN MINUTE is copyrighted/registered trademark of William J.
Federer.
Permission granted to reproduce provided credit given
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