The Roman Empire, European Demographic Replacement

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Durant, Will. The Age of Faith. Simon and Schuster, New York 1950.

Birthrates:

>“The higher birthrates outside the Empire, and the higher standard of living with it, made immigration or invasion a manifest destiny for the Roman Empire then as for North America today.”

Demographic Replacement; Romans Unwilling to Marry:

>“Augustus had begun the policy of settling barbarians within the frontier, to replenish vacant areas and legions that the infertile and un-martial Romans no longer filled.”

German Soldiers, Having Welfare Revoked, Turn on Rome:

>“Theodosius had kept the Goths at peace by employing them in war, and by paying them an annual subsidy as allies. His successor refused to continue this subsidy, and Stilicho dismissed the Gothic troops. The idle warriors craved money and adventure, and their new leader, Alaric, provided both with a skill the outplayed the Romans in diplomacy as well as war.”

Roman Women Captured, Rape, and Turned to the Enemies; Racial Mingling:

>“The captured women were added to the wives of the captors, and so began generations of blood mixture that left traces of Mongol features as far west as Bavaria. These Hun raids ruined the Balkans for centuries.”

>“In effect, the Germans had conquered Italy as Gaiseric had conquered Africa, as the Visigoths had conquered Spain, as the Angles and Saxons were conquering Britain, as the Franks were conquering Gaul.”

“Ethnically the migrations brought a new mingling of racial elements—a substantial infusion of Germanic blood into Italy, Gaul, and Spain, and of Asiatic blood into Russia, the Balkans and Hungary.”