Quote Originally Posted by Baba Ga'on
Goths are Germanic...
...and I really was wrong about it :)
Quote Originally Posted by AntiochusIII, Me
I could be wrong about it.
I suppose I meant something in the position that no Hunnic hordes were there yet to resist a migration should the Germans were driven east by the Romans or something like that.


Tran: the hypothetical implications would be vast, I think, for Germany itself. I'm not sure about the Roman Empire, though. The Romans sort of "lost their teeth" only much later and that's probably due to the overall decline of the entire Empire and inherent flaws in the mostly static Roman system. Should Germania be in the Empire it is likely that it would've declined alongside everywhere else in the Western regions. It's not easy to judge the direction thousands of years of history will take based on one event.

In any case many of the traditional views were made that the Empire was at its "natural" limit at the time. I'm rather unconvinced considering their conquests of Britain and Dacia were done much later on, though.

Who knows? May be that silver mine in Bohemia would do the Empire some good. You know, solving deflation crisis during the 3th century and all that. When those mines ran out right before the Iberian lot found tons of precious metal in the Americas -- 15th century I think -- Europe did suffer a short if dangerous economic lapse from the lack of hard currency.