>built from Istrian stone that required around 400 km of transportation>the roof is carved from a single stone weighing 230 tonnes>it is basically a megalith>built in 520 AD>dark ages
>>18648400it looks like shit
>>18648400Ravenna had a golden age during this time.
>>18648400This time period is so fucking weird desu cause none of the Germanic tribes ruling over these territories are really "recognizable" as existing identities, unlike say Greeks or Persians who stuck around to this day. It's like an alien planet, just a completely different Europe that could've gone in any other direction from our own.
>>18648629I don't believe in the phantom time theory but as you said something is wrong with that period.
>>18648629>>18648673it's called plague of justinian. it was probably way worse than black death.
>>18648629They assimilated largely into the Latin Christian Population they had conquered.
wopentines ruined this btw
>>18648629>>18648673they just assimilated into the local culture, this isn't even unique to the German since a fuck huge amount of forgein groups that become ruling elites did this
>>18649676>>18648988I know that, but it's funny to imagine the earliest years of that era and how everything looked. I know the Empire collapsing was this "nominal" thing rather than an everyday life thing anyone perceived, but it's a weird intermediate point of European history where nothing seems to be quite settled and all the dust is still up in the air with bizarre political arrangements being made.
>>18649946People absolutely felt it in every day life, the countryside became too dangerous to inhabit and all the rural yeomen had to flee to the cities where the urban aristocracy could raise prices and depress wages with the new influx of desperate proles.
>>18648629>This time period is so fucking weird desu cause none of the Germanic tribes ruling over these territories are really "recognizable" as existing identitiesAre you retarded? It's called Germany
>>18650136yeah sure bruh Germans today are definitely the same as Goths or Langobards living in Italy and Hispania of the 500s.Nevermind the fact that Hochdeutsch is barely mutually comprehensible with Bavarian today, to most Germans now those tribes would be speaking foreign babble and had wholly different cultures
>>18650136>>18650177Its just typical american retardation because germany is called germany in english hence germanic must mean german.Basically low IQ retards overan this board.
>>18648553Its been sitting outside for a thousand years
>>18650177>>18650872Longobards are SwabiansGoths are Swedesyou are stupid as fuck lmao
>>18648400>it is basically a megalith>dark agesworse, it's stone age.
>>18650921fuck off retard
>>18648400To the people living back then, Odoacer taking power from Romulus Augustulus wasn't that impactful. If anything they understood it as a reunification of the Roman Empire under one authority again (Zeno). If someone from the future arrived in 1992 Berlin and asked the locals what they thought about the "fall of Germany" two years before, they'd assume he was insane or drunk.What put an end to Antiquity and started a crapsack age were the climate catastrophes of 536 onward and the plagues from 540 onward. The whole world was affected, from the Mayans to the Chinese.
>>18650921>Goths are SwedesGothic was an East Germanic language, not a North Germanic one.Even if they did originate from the territory we call Sweden today, they didn't identify as Swedes and Swedes today wouldn't understand what the fuck they were speaking. Swedes can't even understand spoken Danish, which is significantly more similar to Swedish than Gothic ever was.
>>18651832It's basically confirmed they came from southern Sweden.
>>18652955What you're trying to do here is hitting on the goth baddie barista by talking Swedish to her.
>>18651225This is beyond stupid.The idea that the overthrow of Nepos and later Augustulus was anything even remotely similar to a reunification in practical terms is no more delusional as North Korea claiming themselves as the only true Korea, or Germans only believing in a single Germany when the country was, by all means, split into two separate entities. Denying a political reality doesn’t make the fantasy narrative true. Wopenboos always fail to realize this and prefer to just make their own absurd Byzantine centric narrative about the history of the time. The emperorship in the West fell upon Odoacers ascension as king and definitely confirmed after Nepos was killed. Anything along the lines of “lol it was just a reunification of the empire, there is no war in ba sing se anons…” or that the barbarians were just the equivalent of Roman governors acting in the emperors behalf like that had any real say in the matter is pure and unadulterated cope. Putting [insert emperor here] on a coin was nothing more than a gesture to mask the political reality of the situation, full stop.
>>18648400>>the roof is carved from a single stone weighing 230 tonnesHow did they put it up?
>>18650010>all the rural yeomen had to flee to the cities where the urban aristocracy could raise prices and depress wages with the new influx of desperateWhich is why we saw such a massive growth of cities during the time period, right?
>>18652955Are you illiterate bruh just reread what has already been said.Hell southern Sweden wasn't even Swedish until the 1600s or so, Skåne was Danish and they still had anti-Swedish separatists shooting at the Swedish army up to the 1700s
>>18648400>>built from Istrian stone that required around 400 km of transportationThat is not as impressive as you make it sound.>>dark agesSee what the Romans were building a century ago.
>>18648400ravenna was the capital of the western roman, even if it was the dark ages it was full of knowleable workers
>>18648400>>built in 520 ADAre we supposed to be impressed by that? The pyramids are 3 times as old. Göbekli Tepe is more than 6 times as old.
