But first, let me introduce you to the traditional view, barbarians at the gates. My, don't you look traditional. If you want to be really technical about it, the city of Rome was conquered by bar-bar-bar-bar-bar-barbarians in 476 CE. There was a last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus, who ruled the empire for less than a year before being deposed and sent into exile by Odoacer, who was some kind of barbarian, we don't know for sure. Ostrogoth, Han, Visigoth, Vandals, they all look the same to the Romans. Rome had been sacked by barbarians before, most notably by Olaric the Visigoth in 410. Is it Olaric or Olaric?