07.1 Goths Invade Roman Empire, Battle of Adrianople 378AD
A History of Europe, Key Battles
Carl Rylett
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🗓️ 4 May 2014
⏱️ 23 minutes
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The western Roman Empire was about to fall. But in 451 AD her soldiers had one last great victory on the battlefield, At the Battle of the Catalaunian Fields the destructive armies of Attila and the Huns were kept at bay and prevented from overrunning Western Europe
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| 0:26.2 | Search Dream Big Place Mall. Rules, procedures and game-specific rules apply. |
| 0:29.0 | Place must be 18 or over. The decline and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century is a reminder of the potential fluctuation in fortunes of all states, great and small. |
| 0:59.5 | Today I tell the story of Rome's last great victory on the battlefield, |
| 1:04.4 | when the destructive armies of Attila and the Huns were kept at bay, |
| 1:09.2 | and prevented from overrunning Western Europe. |
| 1:13.6 | Welcome to a history of Europe, Key Battles, the Battle of the Catalonian Fields, Part 1 of 3. |
| 1:23.6 | By the beginning of the 5th century, AD, the Roman Empire had enjoyed centuries of success as a great military power. |
| 1:33.6 | Both the level of civilization it achieved and its longevity were impressive. |
| 1:39.1 | But it had also evolved over that period. |
| 1:42.8 | At around the turn of the millennium, the political system had changed |
| 1:46.5 | from a republic with power invested in a Senate to an empire under the rule of one man. The second |
| 1:54.5 | great transformation was from paganism, that is, belief in multiple gods, to Christianity. In in large part thanks to the Emperor Constantine |
| 2:04.8 | the Great. The empire had faced many challenges but had so far overcome them all. On its northern |
| 2:14.0 | borders it had met stiff resistance from Germanic tribes, and so established |
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