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Rome, which at one time was viewed as industructable, was captured by Barbarians in what was known as the Sack of Rome. Two Hundred and four years later the Persians captured another important city of Rome, Jerusalem, in what is referred to as the Capture of Jerusalem. Although there are many differences in what led to the two cities being taken over, one similarity in the explanation is a huge factor in the reason as to why the cities fell; Betrayal from within.
When Rome fell, the empire was under question. This was the first time that the capital had fallen. It was significant because it showed how much weaker the empire had become. Worldviews of the empire didn’t look Rome as the way they used to look at it. In Jordanes Gettica, he explains how the Romans and Barbarians began to use eachother in order to better their own situations. The Romans used the Barbarians as their soldiers in wars. The Romans would then pay the Barbarians off in order to keep them happy.......

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