Rome Didn't Fall to Barbarians. It Went Bankrupt.
Rome was never conquered in battle. It went bankrupt. For two centuries, one emperor after another quietly shaved the silver out of Rome's coins to pay for an empire it could no longer afford. The denarius went from almost pure silver to a copper slug with a silver wash that rubbed off in your hand. And when the money finally broke, so did everything that depended on it, including the army standing on the border. This documentary follows the death no legion could defend against: the slow debasement of Roman money, the inflation that exploded across the third century, the fifty years of murdered emperors when the throne became an auction, Diocletian's failed attempt to outlaw rising prices, the collapse into barter and serfdom, Constantine's gold coin for the rich, and the day in 476 AD when the Western Empire was simply switched off because there was no money left to keep the lights on. Then the twist nobody teaches: while the West went dark, the richer Eastern half kept the honest gold coin, kept the name, and went on calling itself Rome for another thousand years. This is the first chapter of a new series on the three deaths of Rome, and a direct sequel to our series on the three deaths of ancient Egypt (who really built the pyramids, the drought that killed the Old Kingdom, the Sea Peoples, and Cleopatra are all on the channel). Next: the second death, the day Rome's own legions put the empire up for auction. CHAPTERS 00:00 The coin that killed Rome 00:53 Silver you could trust 01:30 An empire too expensive to run 01:49 One harmless idea 02:43 Two centuries of rot 03:23 Inflation explodes 03:44 The poison reaches the army 04:33 The throne becomes an auction 05:12 Diocletian's iron fist 05:53 Outlawing rising prices 06:43 When money was abandoned 07:50 Constantine's gold coin 08:29 Hiring the barbarians 09:25 476: the lights go out 09:47 How to kill an unbeatable empire 11:33 The empire that never fell 14:01 Next: the army Music: "Ibn Al-Noor" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... #Rome #RomanEmpire #History
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