{"id":1230,"date":"2016-09-12T05:31:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T09:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/?p=1230"},"modified":"2016-09-12T05:31:16","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T09:31:16","slug":"the-weakened-roman-state-and-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/the-weakened-roman-state-and-military\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weakened Roman State and Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weakness of the state spread to the military, and the\u00a0weakness of the military encouraged barbarian invasions and revolts in\u00a0the further provinces of the Empire (<em>The First Four Seals: 96-300 AD, pg. 26<\/em>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSuch turmoil ruined the Roman army. The Northern barbarians were quick to realize the helplessness of the Empire. They crossed the frontiers almost without opposition and penetrated far into Greece and Italy; in the West they overran Gaul and Spain, and some of them even crossed to Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">James Robinson and James Breasted, <em>History of Europe: Ancient and Medieval<\/em>, p. 263.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The weakness of the state spread to the military, and the\u00a0weakness of the military encouraged barbarian invasions and revolts in\u00a0the further provinces of the Empire (The First Four Seals: 96-300 AD, pg. 26). \u201cSuch turmoil ruined the Roman army. The Northern barbarians were quick to realize the helplessness of the Empire. They crossed the frontiers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68,77,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-revelation-6","7":"category-revelation-61-8","8":"category-the-seals-opened","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revelationrevealed.online\/extras\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}