Since we are all getting tired of Trump and the midterms, we will continue to entertain Nick Fuentes’s argument that the Germans would be “absolutely nothing” without the Roman Empire. My argument is that Roman civilization collapsed in the West, most Roman technology, literature and knowledge was simply lost and Western civilization emerged centuries later around the North Sea.
The Anglo-Saxons are the most advanced White people precisely because they never adopted Roman Law.
Justinian’s code was a blight wherever adopted.
Even in the Mediterranean countries, the Germanic influence was crucial. Late Medieval and early modern Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese and French were much more adventurous than ancient Greeks or Romans precisely because their nobles were descended from Germanic invaders (Lombards, Visigoths, Franks, Burgundians and Normans).
The military cadence or infantry marching in step was lost when Rome fell and did not return until a French military Marshal brought it back in the 18th century at least in Europe. Infantry moves a lot faster this way.
Roman troops often sang marching songs (cantilenae) or chanted to keep morale high, ease fatigue, and synchronize their movement over long distances
Other Ancient armies used precise rhythms to move efficiently. The Assyrians used cymbals, the Spartans marched to flutes, and early Chinese dynasties used drums under penalty of execution for breaking the beat.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, European armies abandoned organized tactical marching. In medieval and early modern warfare, soldiers essentially walked disordered, a casual mob toward the enemy rather than moving in lockstep.
French Marshal Saxe recognized that marching to a musical beat (a tactical military cadence) reduced soldier fatigue, kept military formations tight, and allowed units to move much faster on the battlefield. His insistence on reintroducing the drumbeat changed European warfare and laid the groundwork for modern military drill and marching bands
>>> Roman civilization collapsed in the West, most Roman technology, literature and knowledge was simply lost
Most all roman culture was maintained in the Byzantine Empire, then most of the people fled west when Byzantium collapsed in 1450s bringing the books and culture with them. This is the reason Northern Italy went into overdrive in the mid 1400s. Roman culture was restored in Europe via the Byzantine Empire’s collapse.
Additionally, Catholic monasteries were repositories for much of roman written texts. The Catholic Church kept Latin alive throughout the Dark Ages and associated texts.
Some things were lost, like Roman Concrete, engineering concepts.
Charles The Great is the Father of Europe.
This isnt entirely true but it is true.
Rebuilt and saved Europe, did everything,
including saving Latin, literacy, knowledge, books,
and how we all write today, among many things.
Moslems had a pincer move on Europe at this time.
CHARLEMAGNE [ FAMILY ] IS GERMAN
CAROLINGIAN RENAISSANCE
THE RENAISSANCE
[ could not happen without Carolingian Renaissance ]
A lot of related overlapping topics that are covered
regularly.
As I previously stated,
wiki is not bad on this history,
it is actually very valuable with
all the links and related topics.
INCREDIBLE HISTORY most have no knowledge of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
see my previous post in previous article
Do not get stuck on details.
BUILDER OF EUROPE
THIS is what we need today,
wars only to defend our borders, culture, country,
and rebuild, knowledge, tech, etc
Charlemagne was named after his grandfather, Charles Martel.
Name
Several languages were spoken in Charlemagne’s world.[1][b] He was known as Karlo to Early Old French (or Proto-Romance) speakers and as Carolus (or Karolus) in Medieval Latin, the formal language of writing and diplomacy.[2][3] Charles is the modern English form of these names. The name Charlemagne, as the emperor is normally known in English, comes from the French Charles-le-magne (‘Charles the Great’).[4] In modern German and Dutch, he is known as Karl der Große and Karel de Grote respectively.[5] The Latin epithet magnus (‘great’) may have been associated with him during his lifetime, but this is not certain. The contemporary Royal Frankish Annals routinely call him Carolus magnus rex (‘Charles the great king’).[6] That epithet is attested in the works of the Poeta Saxo around 900, and it had become commonly applied to him by 1000.[7]
Excellent post, thank you for sharing this. I am teaching Roman and Byzantine history and really appreciate these perspectives. I have been incorporating these viewpoints (and from others) in my lectures.