>>13450699from the perspective of every member of their empire besides the romans themselves, the empire falling was a good thing, they could rule over their own people, they weren't benefitting from being in conquered in any real way.
romans got shafted, sure, but the dark ages are only called that because the roman's were put into a shit state, not because they were enlightening their constituents and all of a sudden the barbarians decide to reject civilization and literacy.
rome falling was the final L for classical era globalhomo
