Question

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How did distance from Rome likely affect people in the Roman Empire?

A. Rome had less political control over people in distant provinces.

B. Rome sent better goods and supplies to its far territories.

C. People further from Rome had lower social status.
D. People closer to Rome were more likely to hold political office.

Answer 1

@AravindG

Answer 2

@alphadxg

Answer 3

namely that pressure on peoples very far away from the Empire could result in sufficient pressure on peoples on the Empire's borders to make them contemplate the risk of full scale immigration to the empire. Thus he links the Gothic invasion of 376 directly to Hunnic movements around the Black Sea in the decade before. In the same way he sees the invasions across the Rhine in 406 as a direct consequence of further Hunnic incursions in Germania; as such he sees the Huns as deeply significant in the fall of the Western Empire long before they themselves became a military threat to the Empire. He postulates that the Hunnic expansion caused unprecedented immigration in 376 and 406 by barbarian groupings who had become significantly more politically and militarily capable than in previous eras. This impacted an empire already at maximum stretch due to the Sassanid pressure. Essentially he argues that the external pressures of 376–470 could have brought the Western Empire down at any point in its history.

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Answer 4

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