lol

What

Open borders?

roman empire was fucked by migrants

oh you mean the republic?

Roman Empire isn't the Roman republic

were talking the republic

and it didn't have open borders

Wtf

Basically did

Any foederati who rebelled were right to do it

Emperors let mass immigration and settlement happen

They were used as meatshields by the romans

Wasn't that Caesar

So romans didn't have to fight

Good riddance Roman Empire

Had he taken charge at this time or was he the end of the republic?

Roman republic was good and the empire was decent in the beginning

No it wasnt

Republic was extremely corrupt

Their reliance on slaves really fucked em good

Empire was also corrupt

It's surprising they lasted so long

Not many emperors lasted very long tho

All governments are corrupt but the Roman system obviously worked

Civilized mass swathes of Europe

You mean the emperor getting assassinated and replaced every few years later on in the empire

Slavery doesn't work because of that

What do you mean

Barbarians were perfectly civilized

Not at all

Yes they were

They had stable social structures and culture

That's just Roman propaganda

sure, they had civilization, but they were primitive

They make barbarians out to be idiots

How so?

Let's be honest, the romans were technologically shit too

Thousands of years of tribal despots

They relied too heavily on slaves so they didn't advance their technology. It's a large reason they got wrecked in the end

The romans hired so many barbarian mercs as soldiers