How did Germanic tribes go from nobodies to kangz in only a few short centuries?

Go home Varg

gauls too sedentary / docile. The rest not enough brain matter

>peak snowniggotry achieved

Economic and civilizational decline combined with germanic demographic explosion leading to the crushing defeat at the hands of the Goths at Adrianople. The roman military never recovered from this and was forced to abandon the Legion system for a combination of small units led by a frontier Dux assisted by auxiliari troops that could be gathered from the region as a rapid response force. The insufficient precursor of the feudal system. And then of course large numbers of mercenaries further draining the treasury. Few years later a big gang of vandals, suebi and alans crossed the Rhine and devastated the Gaul for years further damaging the economy and setting another example of roman vulnerability; the romans are weak, go get them, everyone!.

But the better question is didn't the Eastern part of the Empire fall. Was it just the high walls of Constantinople and the geographic location of most, and best, part of the Empire -Asia, Egypt- being geographically unreacheable? What if Constantinople hadn't had those high walls to fend off the Visigoths?

Gibbon please leave.

Germanic became the most important component of the western Roman empire army as the other parts of the Roman state began to fall apart. Those Germanic kingdoms have more in common with the late Western Roman Empire than they would with the more eastern Germanic tribes. They were a part of the Roman system that survived the fall of the state. Now this is not universally applicable. The vandals in particular are unique in their outsideness of the Roman system, but the kingdom they founded was very Roman.

they turtled for 500 years

>tfw no army of Aryan superhumans to btfo fire-worshippers and horsefags and recreate Alexander's Empire.
Why is the world so cruel?

The East was much richer and had many more towns from which the state could survive. Most of of the West was marginal poor land more important for.defense Turkey Syria and Egypt were incredibly productive.

Also, remember that the army of the Visogoths by the time of the sack of Rome could be thoight of as hybrid Roman and Germanic army.

It was wealthier, it was more urbanized, more populated and so on. And in spite of all that the entire european part of the ERE was utterly invaded and ransacked x10 harder than any WRE province was.

So the question remains. Was it geography what saved the ERE? What if Constantinople had fallen to the Visigoths? Assuming geographical allowance, could the roman military in the Asian and Egyptian provinces prevent and/or defeat waves of mid/large scale barbarian raids and invasions like the ones the WRE was openly exposed to?