Most people picture the fall of Rome as barbarians storming the gates, but the real story started much earlier and looked nothing like that. The empire didn’t collapse in a single dramatic moment. It slowly packed its bags and moved somewhere else, leaving Rome...
I keep coming back to this one fact about Rome that most people gloss over in history class. The Roman Empire didn’t fall because some barbarian horde showed up and knocked the whole thing down in a weekend. The empire actually left its own capital behind,...
