Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Medieval Warfare: Logistics" video.

  1. This leads me to the question, “Why are there no cattle herding video games?”.
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  2. I quite agree with you, and I’ll go further. The “fall” of the Western Roman Empire was a slow process. Although there was a significant breakdown in the empire’s government and a reduction in trade, Roman society didn’t disappear. It’s important to note that in the centuries before the fall, Rome was already employing “barbarian” tribes in their armies, sometimes as discrete armies (large units) and sometimes as individual mercenaries. It’s hard to believe that the Germans and Gauls somehow forgot about logistics as Roman influence waned, while not forgetting about military engineering (as used in sieges and fortifications). The so-called barbarian tribes didn’t suddenly forget what they had learned from the Romans. There is no doubt that following the political and economic breakdown, society became more primitive, more agrarian, less urban. Cities became depopulated, people moved to the countryside and engaged in subsistence farming. A new political/economic system arose from these changes. There was less material wealth to support learning and preservation of knowledge (but it did continue to a lesser degree), less wealth to support arts and other material aspects of an urban culture.
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