What exactly went wrong? In China, whenever they imploded, they sinicized the conquerors because China couldnt be governed without the institutions. Why did Rome just vanish?
Smaller population. The cities depopulated and the entire network broke down. In China the normal people continued things sort of I guess
Well it's not like they didn't try, the hre and the third rome stuff was a thing in fact because they wanted rome back in some form.
These are the warlords who never reunited rome
>>18244723>what went wrongStart with the lead pipes, end with the Jewish carpenter cult. You can't run an empire based on war and conquest when half your population suddenly decides that turning the other cheek is moral.
>>18244723They romanized the conquerors
>>18244723The dissolution of all state institutions prevented any sort of continuation. Maybe the Ostrogoths in a couple of centuries would have ended and become part of a greater Roman whole like the peoples who invaded China since Romans in Ostrogothic Italy remained in near complete control of civic government unlike elsewhere. Outside of Italy, the new rulers were unwilling to have Romans serve alongside them or in high positions. Only Bishops got away with it because they were locally elected. First with at least over a century of legal discrimination and refusing to integrate into the whole. Romans just had no space to be of any importance. There's also the issue of the Eastern Empire existing. How can these elites become Roman without signalling something to a foreign, far more powerful state. Even Romans in Italy defected to the East the moment it became sure that Belasarius would actually make it to Rome. Romans had loyalty and gave a casus belli to the East to invade
>>18244723>be China>single continuous mass of some of the richest Arable land on earth, predominantly flat and surrounded by mountains with tons of rivers flowing through it>be Rome>series of disconnected peninsulas separated by mountains only unified by a giant sea that frequently has unpredictable stormsMystery why one was easier to keep unified than the other.
