In ancient Rome, under the blessing of truth and power, Roman culture became the representative of European civilization. Even today, thousands of years later, Roman culture still has many adherents, and these people are not only distributed in the places where the ancient Roman power can reach, such as Europe, where it has not been able to reach, but also has a large elite population.
In the face of such a long period of time ago, modern people are still fascinated, let alone ancient times. Especially after the third century AD, with the decline of the Roman Empire, although the surrounding barbarian tribes vigorously attacked the empire and wanted to plunder wealth from it, they also hoped to see the style of this ancient empire in their long-term contact with ancient Rome.
As the core of the Roman Empire, the city of Rome became the place of longing for barbarian leaders. In addition to the roman city at that time, which gathered the wealth of the Mediterranean coast in the past thousand years, as the capital city of the center of Western civilization, it had an unimaginable attraction to backward barbarian tribes.
After all, when the barbarians plundered the border towns of the empire, seeing the daily life of the Romans, there must be some ripples in their hearts. Especially the contrast between the two compartments can make some barbarians have strange feelings, of course, if it is an ordinary barbarian warrior, he can only sigh a little, and after that, he can only continue his original life.
However, when the core of the barbarian tribe has such emotions, its behavior can determine the future direction of the barbarians.
More typical examples are the Visigothic king Adolfas, who, led by King Alaric I, led by King Alaric I, traveled west from the steppes of Eastern Europe into Italy, the land of Gyeonggi of the Western Roman Empire. Not only that, but the king also led Visigothic warriors in the Italian region to fight in the south and the north, and no one could resist.
In 410 AD, the king took the city of Rome, which had the title of "Eternal City", and plundered the city, gaining a huge amount of wealth. However, when the king died unexpectedly in the same year, the Visigothic attitude towards the Romans took a 180-degree turn.
The successor king soon got in touch with the Western Roman court to discuss the possible Withdrawal of the Visigoths from Italy. In addition, the new king also hoped to marry the Roman Emperor, form an alliance between the two sides against the barbarian forces that disrupted the order of Western Rome, and so on, and a barbarian leader became a defender of the Western Roman Empire.
This is the influence of Roman culture on this barbarian.
Before getting deeper into Roman culture, Adofas's ideal was to build a mighty Visigothic Empire, but the barbaric and backward Visigothic tribes made Adolfas shake the realization of his ideals. When he deeply understood Roman culture, he gradually changed his position, from building a Visigothic Empire to supporting the Roman Empire!
The Visigoths' alliance with the Western court laid the foundations, and although the two sides attacked each other in the years that followed, when faced with a powerful external threat (The Hun invasion), the two sides were still able to put aside their mustards and join hands against the enemy.
It should be known that the western court at this time had long been greatly weakened, and in the process of fighting against the Huns, the role of the Visigoths was far greater than that of the Roman legions. It was precisely because of the addition of the Visigoths, which attracted a large number of barbarian tribes on the sidelines, that the Roman commander Aetius was able to form a large army against Attila.
Although the Visigoths had their own interests in responding to the Romans' common confrontation with the Huns, there must have been decades of contacts accumulated by both sides. The root of all this is the emergence of a king of the Visigoths who aspired to Roman culture.
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