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(05-08-2016 06:57 AM)Orion Wrote:  

Not only that, but the famed Rome ceased to be capital even earlier, since many rulers considered it a decadent metropolis, and instead ruled from Ravenna etc.

The capital was moved for military reasons, as Ravenna is much easier to defend than Rome, not because Rome was "decadent"--a mass of people in a capital city always seem to be decadent.

Mass of humans + money + power = decadence; what do you think Byzantium was like? &c

Highly Defensible Ravenna: