The History of the Roman Empire

By 350, the fertility rate had gone down and you were starting to incorporate Germans and Germanic speaking peoples that had come across the Danube and Rhine. A lot of them didn't read or write Latin very well at all. There was, we think illiteracy was on the time again. So it's very important to make sure that you have a unity when you start to see a civilization unravel as Rome did. When they say barbarians, we don't mean that every single person, south and east of the Rhine and Danube was Roman and spoke Latin. No, what we mean was that if they were in the province of Iberia, they were starting to speak