It was an improvement in every way.
>>18410022Based!true even!
A bunch of illiterate barbarians who left nothing behind and were annihilated by like 50 Greeks
>>18410216>A bunch of illiterate barbariansNoble defenders of Italy, many of whom were given Roman citizenship and fully adopted Roman customs.>who left nothing behindThey kept Italy and Illyria prosperous and would have continued being faithful stewards of the west if it weren't for J*stianian.>and were annihilated by like 50 GreeksThey were annihilated by the plague and by the hunnic mercenaries the Greeks unleashed to rape and kill their own people. J*stinian's men laid waste to Italy during their conquest
>>18410022We were robbed.
>>18410336Procopius was right about Justinian (and Theodora)
>>18410336They weren’t given citizenship ever and they actively resisted Romanisation to the point that they deposed the queen for trying to educate her son in a Roman fashion
>>18411777you're arguing with a nutcase who is consumed with racial hate for Italians and makes a dozen threads a day about it, despite growing up in Naples Italy with a father in the American military and believes in Christian identity (Germanics are the real Israelites and all non Northern Europeans will burn in Hell forever)
>>18410216>illiterateGothic was a written language used in Arian liturgy though. Also, they had a pretty sophisticated legal code.
>>18410336This. Dandolo and the whole Fourth Crusades was and ancestral Blood memory revenge for the destruction the greekling brought to Italy with the Gothic War
>>18411777They had already been living in the empire for generations as federated troops. They maintained the senate. They overthrew a usurper government at the behest of the eastern emperor and ruled Italy in the name of Rome. Roman laws were maintained and Roman life was maintained, the only difference is which troops were garrisoning towns and forts and who the people paid taxes to.>B-but they were AriansThere were emperors with Arian and Monophysite sympathasies and plenty of people were in the empire were Arian, that didn't mean they weren't Romans.>>18411779>you're arguing with a nutcase who is consumed with racial hate for Italians and makes a dozen threads a day about it, despite growing up in Naples Italy with a father in the American military and believes in Christian identityWhoever you're talking about isn't me stop being a schizo. I don't hate Italians, I'm just sad that Italy was ravaged by decades of plague and war because the nephew of a usurper (married to a prostitute) wanted to kill innocents.
>>18412535You’re close OP, but the real red pill here was that Belisarius should have divorced his whore wife, married Matasuinta, accepted that crown and become emperor of a new Roman-Gothic state. Allying with the Visigoths would have been consequentially easy, and I think African could have been swayed to his side. We got robbed of this peak timeline
>>18411779>despite growing up in Naples Italywhat do you mean despite?naples is one of the worst cities in the world and it's inhabitants some are the worst subhumans on the planet,any non neapolitan being forced to live there would naturally hate everything about ithe is also right that the greco-gothic wars devastated italy more than any previous barbarian invasion t.north italian
>>18411777>educate her son in a Roman fashionthat's a euphemism for being molested by an older male isn't it
>"My lord, the Sassanids are raiding again and the plague has killed millions of our subjects. What should we do?">SEND IN ANOTHER WAVE. BURN RAVENNA TO THE GROUND
>>18410022preservers of roman heritage destroyed by oriental wopentines
