Submitted by Taps Coogan on the 1st of September 2019 to The Sounding Line.

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Roughly 100 years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian the Great launched a successful campaign to reconquer much of the former Western Roman Empire from the ‘Barbarian’ Kingdoms, including Italy and the city of Rome.

The following video map, from Youtube Creator EmperorTigerstar, shows the changing front lines of that war every month from 533 AD to 556 AD. While Justinian successfully recaptured much of the former Western Empire, including Rome, the fighting greatly weakened the Italian economy and population. The Justinian Plague, one of the first major bubonic plague outbreaks, also struck during the same period and may have killed as many as 50 million Europeans and potentially as much as a quarter of the world’s population.

Greatly weakened, the reconquest of the Western Empire failed less than ten years after Rome’s recapture, forever ending the prospect of Roman dominion in Western Europe.

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