Why Was the Battle of Adrianople so Decisive?

Starting from humble backgrounds, the citizens of Rome drove out their Etruscan Kings in the 6th century BC to found the Roman Republic, an entity that with time, turned out to be quite aggressive and ambitious, but at the same time, was also capable of mobilizing its manpower for war more efficiently than any of its neighbors. It was the perfect recipe for future domination, and by the middle of the 3rd century BC, the Romans controlled all of the Italian peninsula. Two centuries later, they were already the masters of the Mediterranean Sea, and with any serious external enemy threatening their existence gone, the leading men of Rome turned on each other. <a href="https://medium.com/@weeklydoseofhistory/why-was-the-battle-of-adrianople-so-decisive-4b1633455768">Read More</a>