I am a huge history buff, and I've currently been listening to Mike Duncan's Podcast on the "History of Rome." You did a great job explaining how Rome shot itself in the foot by eliminating Stilico. Rome's biggest enemy was its own complacency and greed. Additionally, if they hadn't treated the barbarians, so cruely, they might have been able to assimilate them into the empire. The Western World would have had a totally different identity in the middle ages, if we would have even called them the middle ages. Upvoted and following! I would love to see an article on Theodoric the Great. Even though Romulus was considered the last emperor of Rome, I think Theodoric held the last vestige of Roman rule and custom in the west.