Fast Fact: When Rome fell, only 4% of the population was Roman due a massive influx of migrants brought in by the rich, according to genetic analysis study
The study reveals that there is irrefutable evidence that ancient Rome’s native population was largely replaced by migrants from the Near East by the time Rome fell.
The new scientific data confirms complaints made by Roman chroniclers that wealthy elites engineered a ‘great replacement’ which intensified as the Republic crumbled between 133 and 27 B.C.
The new information also discredits claims that Rome fell because of class warfare, saying instead the erosion of Roman culture and native Romans was the main reason Rome fell.
The study pinpointed a dramatic shift in ethnic population, when the rich brought in migrants, slaves, traders and settlers from eastern territories that they conquered – displacing native Romans.
In 900–200 B.C. 8(73%) were from Western European lineages – Native Romans
By 27 B.C. to 300 A.D. just 4% retained those Western European markers, with the rest being migrants.
Romans have documented how victorious generals, who wanted to become more wealthy, imported large numbers of eastern slaves after campaigns in Asia and Africa, to swell the urban underclass while evicting smallholder farmers from their lands.
Then Romans were removed en masse from the city to dilute the voting power of the natives with that of migrants.
Natives often complained that their identity, cultural unity, and national sovereignty were being lost to foreign infusions of migrants because the elite class was compromising their borders for personal profit.
