Good bye, Roman Empire!

This is episode 13 called Good bye, Roman Empire! and in this episode you will learn: SHOW NOTES - Who were Ricimer and Majorian, leaders of the coup d'état against Emperor Avitus - The situation of Hispania, especially in Gallaecia that was divided between two factions of Suebi - The very delicate situation of the Western Roman Empire when Emperor Majorian took power in 457 - The impressive achievements and conquests of Majorian, against the Vandals, Visigoths, Burgundians and Suebi - What went wrong in 460 that ended the dream of the restoration of the Western Roman Empire - How the Visigoths under Theodoric II and Euric conquered much of Hispania - How the Kingdom of the Suebi was restored under King Remismund, as a vassal state of the Visigoths, and why we don't have information about the Suebi for the next 80 years - The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and the peak of Visigothic power - The consolidation of the Visigothic state with the promulgation of the Code of Euric and Breviary of Alaric and the division of Goths and Romans by law - Where did the Visigoths settle in Hispania and how they distributed its lands - The Frankish expansionism under Clovis I and the decisive Battle of Vouillé of 507, that supposed the end of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toulouse, the death of Alaric II, the weakening of the Balti dynasty and the end of Visigothic supremacyA reflection on the importance of not overextending