History is dramatically altered; Roman forces win a crushing victory over the Gothic armies at Adrianople. The Gothic insurrection is terminated with extreme prejudice and the Goths themselves are nearly exterminated.
How does this affect the solvency of the Empire and the course of later history?
Roman Victory at Adrianople
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If the Visigoths got exterminated at Adrianople, and Valens didn't get killed, I think the biggest historical difference would be that the the Franks would have taken both Gaul and the Iberian peninsula later. Perhaps the burgundians would have gotten more land. There were still many other germanic migrations besides the visigoths (I think they were the coolest though) The compositon of the forces at the Catalaunian fields arrayed against the Huns would have been different though, since visigoths under Theoderic formed a substantial part of the European forces.
I don't think we could assume that if the Visigoths as a political entity did not exist in 451, that there would not have been some other Germanic tribe around Toulouse. Perhaps, Vandals would have taken Spain and settled there.
I don't think we could assume that if the Visigoths as a political entity did not exist in 451, that there would not have been some other Germanic tribe around Toulouse. Perhaps, Vandals would have taken Spain and settled there.