HIST 1001 Chapter : Decline Of The Roman Empire
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The german men hunted and fought and everything else was done by the women. The entered into the roman empire at first as slaves, they then came as raiders and are fought against, then they came as settlers. Rome then got hit by some plaques and they settled germans to repopulate. The germans started getting drafted for the roman. By 300 the roman army could have been 30-40% german. The germans are attracted to roman civilization: the parthians (persia) drained resources that the romans could have used against the romans. When caesar is killed the romans were preparing to fight the persians. Internal: scholars determine that a series of plaques went through the empire (250 ad & 400 ad) and they might have been so bad that it reduced the population by. They are not sure what plaques it might have been.
