What Happened When the Goths Took Rome?
The year 410 AD was one of the worst in the Roman Empire’s history
7 min readSep 27, 2021
The Roman Empire reached its apex during the second century. It stretched out on all sides of the Mediterranean Sea (which led the Romans to simply refer to it as “Mare Nostrum” meaning “Our Sea”). The empire’s capital, Rome, had a population of almost 1 million people, making it the…
