Acording to this historian it was pretty awful: https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Rome-End-Civilization/dp/0192807285 https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Rome-End-Civilizatio

Acording to this historian it was pretty awful: https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Rome-End-Civilization/dp/0192807285 https://www.amazon.com/Fall-Rome-End-Civilization/dp/0192807... "The book recaptures the drama and violence of the last days of the Roman world, and reminds us of the very real terrors of barbarian occupation. Equally important, Ward-Perkins contends that a key problem with the new way of looking at the end of the ancient world is that all difficulty and awkwardness is smoothed out into a steady and positive transformation of society. Nothing ever goes badly wrong in this vision of the past. The evidence shows otherwise." We've seen how this looks like in modern times with the fall and decline of the Soviet Union. The US could end up similarly in the future: invading countries under flimsy pretexts, assassinating opponents, politics utterly corrupted by money, trying to bully other countries into submission, etc.