Wars by Era
1 major conflict, 8 battles, and an estimated 600,000 dead.
The century-long unraveling of the Western Roman Empire — from the Gothic crossing of the Danube and the catastrophe at Adrianople in 378, through the barbarian flood across the frozen Rhine, the unthinkable sacks of Rome by Alaric's Visigoths and Genseric's Vandals, the apocalyptic clash with Attila's Huns on the Catalaunian Plains, and finally the quiet deposition of the boy-emperor Romulus Augustulus in 476. Driven by invasion, civil war, economic collapse, and the slow transformation of barbarian foederati into the empire's masters, the West dissolved into the Germanic kingdoms that became medieval Europe — while the Roman East endured for a thousand years more.
8 battles · 600,000 dead