As for the German tribes, do remember that they weren't a bunch of uncivilized rabble by the 300s AD. Their technology essentially caught up with the Romans, while (Western) Roman tech stagnated by ...
American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 5 (Mar., 1926), pp. 601-616 (16 pages) The Saxons were the latest of all the German tribes to enter the orbit of medieval civilization. They were neither ...
In the days of ancient Rome, it was never a good idea to send amateurs to pacify the Germanic tribes. The Emperor Augustus found this out in A.D. 9, when his hand-picked crony, Varus, blundered into a ...