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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValiantKnight, post: 2786211, member: 44210&quot;]You might at least enjoy living in Theodoric&#039;s Italy. I&#039;m not up to speed with all of the sources but from what I&#039;ve read it was a pretty prosperous and stable place. Theodoric was a great patron of Roman culture (he was sent as a hostage to Constantinople in his youth) and made every effort to preserve it within his kingdom. He gave real power back to the Roman Senate after centuries without it under the empire, and he established good relations with the less-Romanized Germanic peoples. Theodoric valued the expertise of the Romans in running a working government (which the Germanic peoples lacked), and so he kept them in high positions to administer his kingdom. He was a tolerant ruler who promoted peace and equality as well. </p><p><br /></p><p>Give me Theodoric&#039;s &quot;Dark Ages&quot; (a term I disagree with, by the way) Italy over living under more uncertain and dangerous times during Roman rule like the mid-late 3rd century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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