1. The Fall of the Roman Empire
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... this time and did so, fighting a reinvigorated Persia in the East while facing threats from Goths and others in the West. This is not the picture of a faltering empire. Invasion Clearly, Gibbon’s thesis ...

2. The Fall of Rome
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... Cappadocian parents who had been captured in a barbarian raid and carried off, he had been raised amongst those barbarians, the Goths, who lived beyond the Danube River. Among them he was raised to manhood, ...