Not to mention, more historically accurate. Gibbon's work is, of course, a milestone in historical research, but his thesis in a nutshell was "Rome fell because

Not to mention, more historically accurate. Gibbon's work is, of course, a milestone in historical research, but his thesis in a nutshell was "Rome fell because of the spread of Christianity and a general loss of morality". This more or less translates to "immigrants corrupted the core values of classical Roman identity", which is exactly the overall theme that this series of posts tries (successfully, in my opinion) to confute.