1159(406)-1207(454) (Ætas ab Brian)

Flavivs Theodosivs was next appointed at 40. He knew himself to having not quite the greatness and energy of Constantine and Iulianus. He found the best solution was to further delegate the Emperor’s power to the Senate, governors and generals. He added many new laws to make loopholes harder to find and corruption worse to punish. Also the same year he took office, odd things were happening in the Bosporia and Caucasvs Provinces. Many once angry and violent Ostrogoths began pouring into the Roman provinces of the far north-east begging for protection and refuge from what was becoming known as the Magyars or Huns. In 1160(407) Goths began fleeing to Germania as well. These massive migrations put a lot of stress on the local governments and it also forbode that if tens of thousands were fleeing when no reports of Huns or Magyars were apparent the enemy must be very fierce. Much of Germania’s most eastern regions up to the River Elbe were given to the Ostrogoths as farmland so that they would accept the responsibility of defending that land when the enemy came, the same happened in Bosporia and Caucasus. These regions became dependant kingdoms since the Romans knew that the Goths may not even wait for the Hun problem to be resolved before they started pillaging again. Rome put the Goths’ refugee statvs very conditional and made sure they all knew it. The Goths must not pass the River Elbe, Must pay their taxes and adhere to Roman laws, and also children below 10 must attend a specialized Roman schooling (to instil complacentcy and obedience in the children) These Huns after some research turned out to have originated from the Caucvs mountain ranges. Roman expansion had pushed them north where they ran into the Ostrogoths, now they were pushing into Gothic lands.The ‘give the land to the Goths to worry about’ tactic worked well in stopping the flow of refugees. They were even supplied with 30 year old weapons and armour to defend against the invaders. East Germania’s defensive strategy was changed from many border forts to forest hidden guarisions. Theodosivs had the ability to use the attrition stratagies Consantine could not. The Bosborvs and Caucasian regions had less defensive capabilities and those regions were prepared for evacuation to Pontvs and Dacia. The unfortunate part was that the invasion was long to come. It took until 1187(434) for the Hun armies to appear. It was first in the Caucuses. After a moderate victory for the Romans it was found the leader of these invaders was one Attila, who was recorded to have been a Roman peace hostage by an unnamed nomatic tribe in 1171(418) that had escaped. He was supposed to have absorbed much of Roman knowledge before his escape, that Attila may be smarter than the average barbarian did not sit well with the generals. The Huns also used a sort of double arced bow which made their archers ridiculously accurate, ranged and powerful-also from horseback. For 4 years Attila’s Empire expanded until it brushed Gothic Germania, then the Huns attacks concentrated driving deep into the territory, causing total havoc, Attila presiding. Heavy attacks on Dacia also occurred under the Huns. By 1197(443) most of Dacia had fallen and the Gothic tribes in Germania were slaughtered, although the Huns were running out of strength there fast. Bosporia was invaded and lost by 1198(445). Finally, in 1199(446) the Hun army lead by Attila was totally crushed in a three-way ambush a few km east of the Elbe. Attila escaped but a huge amount of Hun weapons were recovered and sent to the ADA to be developed for Roman use and improved upon if at all possible. Hun holdings in Germania were retaken by 1203(450) by Roman reinforcements and the remains of the Gothic tribes. The Goths continued invading into the Hun lands but were totally decimated and withdrew. In 1205(452) Attila had somewhat regrouped and crossed the Danube river to take Byzentium. At that Time Byzentium was almost like a second capital because of its economic power, and strateigic placement. The Huns conquered much of Moesia Inf. and continued south. Over 100 cities fell to Attila in the east until he began sieging Byztentium in 1206(453). After two months of besiegment a Roman army armed with Hun-based bows arrived. Also, since surviving from the crash of a bombus alesalitis was so unlikely and crew deaths made many in that military sector complain, they worked with scientists at Campvs Marcus’ own ADA to develop the Acciomunimeninis(parachute), now flying crews could get out of crashes with no more than broken Tibias. Attila was a terrible foe for Barbarian warlords but against disciplined Roman legions, he had little chance. The Romans eventually won and Attila was killed but just as in Germania, it was very costly. After the news of Attila’s death spread across his empire, it collapsed utterly. Dacia, Moesia inf. and sup., Thrace, and Germania were all restored but the Northern Shore of Bosporia would not be recovered for some time. As for the Gothic tribes, in Bosporia and Germania they became extinct. In the Caucvs where Goths still lived, very large education campaigns were made to civilize the Goths, they centred on instilling the Roman ideals of Gravitas, Pietas and Dignitas. They were still allowed their religiovs rituals and were given forested areas for them to be conducted. This made the Goths much more agreeable. Theodosivs was considered to have conducted the war well although he lost much popularity for loosing Bosporia. Theodosivs died in late 1207(454) after having Byzentium’s walls overhauled and enlarged.