Fallen Rome: Why Can't Italy Today?

Glory belongs to Greece, and greatness belongs to Rome. The former RomanEmpire was a glorious past in European history. Many European thinkersconsider it the mother of modern Western civilization. However, when thisglorious empire collapsed under the invasion of barbarians, the Italianpeninsula, which once gave birth to this great empire, threw the reputation ofthe Roman Empire out of the clouds. The performance of chicken dishes andthe fate of the country under the domination of others made it difficult forthe people of this country to connect with the former Roman Empire. Whathas caused the Italians to undergo such a qualitative change?

01.

The main part of the tangled Abingning Italy is the Apenninepeninsula (plus Sicily and Sardinia) located in the middle of theMediterranean. This high peninsula is divided by mountains running throughthe center. On the three sides of the southeast and southwest are coastalplains, of which the Tiber Plain on the north west coast gave birth to greatRoman city-states, while the east coast gave birth to powerful commercialcity-states such as Venice.

In the northern part of the Apennine Peninsula, the towering Alps separateItaly from the main body of continental Europe. This kind of topographicalconditions has to some extent protected the regime born here from aggressionfrom the north, and also hindered its economic and cultural exchanges with themainland, which can easily cause strategic occlusion and instability in thedevelopment of the regime.

Graphic / Italian topography

02. Where the war began The

geographical location of the Apennine Peninsula determined the rising powerhere, and sufficient development opportunities could be obtainedearly. When the whole of Europe was shrouded in obscurity, Rome, who hadreceived the dawn of civilization, had enough time to integrate the materialresources of the entire peninsula. Carthage merchants in the southwest hadno intention of expanding north, and the Greeks on the east coast onlyestablished many independent city-states in southern Italy and Sicily on thebasis of city-state colonization (which later became an early experience ofRoman expansion).

Therefore, for the Italian peninsula, the ocean at this time is more like abarrier and an additional harvest. The Romans only needed to resist Gaulin the north (Gaul in the mountains of the Po plain) to enjoy all the strategicadvantages.

Photo / Colosseum

Once the Romans with a highly civilized advantage have integratedItalian agricultural resources (a small amount of commercial resources), theRomans' expansion will be as powerful as the Roman Legion. Whether it isthe conquest of the loose commercial nations of Greece (Macedonia) and Carthagein the Mediterranean, or the conquest of ignorant barbarians on land, powerfulmilitary forces and highly sophisticated governance methods can quickly spreadand expand to a large number of aliens civilization. This is why theRomans were able to build powerful empires in ancient times.

03. Inside and outside attack sites

However, with the collapse of the Roman Empire, the once glorious Italianpeninsula experienced successive baptisms by the Visigoths, the East Goths, theVandals, the Lombards and the Franks. Many cities were destroyed and theRomans slaughtered. Instead, the barbarians wanted the prestige of theRomans, but they did not benefit the civilians. Therefore, the SupremePope replaced the authority of the secular Roman emperor and brought hope toordinary people. After the farce that the pipeline provided territories tothe Frankish kingdom in the 8th century, a pope nation centered on Romeappeared in central Rome, directly hindering the hope of reunification of theItalian peninsula.

Photos / Pipes Provide Earth

After the third division of the Frankish kingdom, the central Frankish kingdom,with northern Italy as its main body, was divided into two parts, onlynominally. In 962, the German emperor Otto I occupied central and northernItaly and placed it in the territory of the Holy Roman Empire. Thesouthern peninsula territory was occupied by Byzantines and Normans across thesea. In this way, the Italian peninsula will be divided into three parts,and the beginning and end cannot be interdependent.

When many centralized civilizations came together, the ocean of dividends andbarriers once became a dangerous source of alien invasion. The Italianpeninsula has been harassed by maritime forces. What is more frighteningis that the long-term division has led to the embarrassment of incoherence andincoherence in the economic development of the Italian peninsula. Everycity republic in the north has set off a great revival, but it still insists ona

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