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March 472: Among the ruins of Rome's great buildings, fighting and dying rage. Groups of emaciated citizens climb on piles of rubble that were once magnificent buildings, and throw pieces of marble and beautiful statues at the barbarian mercenaries trying to force their way to the Palatine. These are the bloody, merciless fights of a pathetic civil war in which the legitimate Emperor, Anthemius, leads officials and citizens to prevent his Magister Peditum in Praesenti, Ricimer, from deposing him. The city that seventy years ago was still the richest, most populous and dazzling in the world is now a ruined, half-empty slaughterhouse in which a few thousand ragged and hungry citizens of Rome fight tooth and nail against some six thousand barbarian mercenaries. A few thousand... That was the current level of Roman forces, which in the year 400 still numbered 300,000 soldiers and 23,000 sailors in their western armies. No one could know it yet, but that devastating year of 472 was only four years away. Rome was dying and its people, oblivious to their own end, continued to kill each other to support the personal ambitions of their leaders. But what had happened? Why did such a powerful Empire fall? Script by José Soto Chica We have launched an APP with a ton of videos, podcasts and unpublished texts! Link to Apple App Store https://apps.apple.com/es/app/academi... Link to Google Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/de... BUY OUR UNIVERSAL HISTORY BOOK https://www.amazon.es/historia-nunca-... BUY OUR SPANISH HISTORY BOOK http://tiny.cc/9lfxdz SUBSCRIBE http://bit.ly/2cqyJpp BECOME A MEMBER OF THE CHANNEL / @academiaplay (rewards and benefits) SPONSOR THE CHANNEL ON PATREON / academiaplay (rewards and benefits) MAKE A DONATION ON PAYPAL https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted... BUY OUR EBOOK: https://goo.gl/gJf3TB Thanks to our Patreon benefactors: Carlos Siemens, Pedro Romera, Eva L. García Franco, Gian Marco Farina, Pablo de Barreda and Pablo JP. FOLLOW US • Web: http://academiaplay.es/ • Facebook: / academiaplay • Twitter: / academiaplay • Instagram: / academiaplay • Email: [email protected] Do you want to sponsor an Academia Play video? https://academiaplay.es/patrocina-vid... Music - Credits EPIDEMIC SOUND PURPLE PLANET: https://www.purple-planet.com KEVIN MACLEOD: https://incompetech.com/ PRESS PLAY AND MAKE YOUR LEARNING EXPERIENCE EPIC!