AmericanThinker- The year was 375. The Roman Empire contained about a fourth of the world’s people stretching across Europe from Brittania in the north to Egypt in the south, from Spain in the west to what is now Bulgaria in the east.
Meanwhile, just east of Bulgaria, the Visigoths (Western Goths), fleeing the depredations of Hun horsemen, wanted to cross the Danube River into the safety of the Roman Empire. The Visigoths were also attracted by the glorious wealth of the Roman Empire.
The story of the refugee crisis is told in the final chapter of Edward Gibbon’s classic The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. About 500,000 Goths, men, women and children, lined the bank of the Danube River for miles, seeking to cross:
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Funny how history has a habit of biting civilizations in the ass and ripping out a great bloody chunk whenever the opportunity arises.
“History is bunk.”
(Harrison Ford)
“Those who ignore History are destined to repeat it’s mistakes.”
(Carlos Santana)
(Yes, this is humor – of a sort)