The Roman Empire Followed Our Path of Mass Migration — and DIED

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China is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. Interestingly, too, China’s Han Empire and the Roman Empire were contemporaneous and peaked at about the same time close to 2,000 years ago. But China is still around.

The Roman Empire is all gone.

The difference? “China is often considered one of the most politically, culturally, and linguistically monolithic countries in the world,” writes LitCharts.com. In other words, through famines, pestilence, bad governments, and other disasters, the Chinese people, language, and culture always remained.

In contrast, it wasn’t just that Rome comprised disparate peoples conquered in relatively short order. It’s also that it did not stress, nearly enough, the principle e pluribus unum. In fact, writes Matt O’Brien, director of investigations at the Immigration Reform Law Institute:

It is a common historical myth that Rome fell in 476 A.D. after Odoacer, King of the Goths, sacked the capital city and forced Romulus Augustus to abdicate his throne.

The historical reality is rather different. Over the course of nearly a century, Germanic tribes — fleeing everything from war, famine and tribal politics — moved, unimpeded, into Roman territory. And the Empire died not by traditional invasion but by unchecked mass migration. […]

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