Where did the Romans go and why did they vanish?

Question

In answer to 'Who owns Latin?', Ilya states that it was spoken by a people called the Romans, a nation/people who no longer exist. Where are the Romans? Where did they go? What did they do that forced them to vanish?

Answer 1

Check Italy.

Answer 2

Romans technically still exist (and I'm referring to the descendants of the empire). Rome essentially got too big to handle and split into two empires (with Rome on the Western end capital and Byzantine in present-day Turkey as the Eastern Capital). When they split it became too weak to defend itself against repeated attacks by Germanic tribes and lost power. The latins then mixed with the Germanic tribes and the resulting mixing of languages and people became present-day France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Romania.

The empire itself accepted Christianity and made the Roman Catholics with the pope as the head. So the empire technically exists anywhere catholicism exists. And it also exists anywhere those 5 countries spread to so in essence while it is no longer considered empire the Romans are spread to all of South America, the United States, those five countries, much of Africa and some of the Middle East as a whole. So they have not vanished, but are called by different names and split and spread throughout the world.

Answer 3

The Romans did not vanish - they are in Rome. However, the Western Roman Empire centered in Rome did fall - although the Eastern Roman Empire lasted another 1000 years centered in present day Istanbul, Turkey. Unfortunately, the arabs and christian crusaders took the last Romans out. You can still see a great deal of Roman architecture around the world as their ruins still exists despite being centuries old.

Answer 4

Still there are Romans. People who live in Rome are Romans by right.
I think that you mean the ancient Romans, who were the people of the Roman Empire. The empire ceased to exist in 476, when the last emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed by the Ostrogoths, and Odoacre was named king of Italy.
The Romans then were called Italians, nationality that they still have. They did not vanish

Answer 5

It broke apart into different cultures and was absorbed by them.

Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew out of the city-state of Rome, founded in the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC. During its twelve-century existence, the Roman civilization shifted from a monarchy to an oligarchic republic to a vast empire. It came to dominate Western Europe and the entire area surrounding the Mediterranean Sea through conquest and assimilation. However, a number of factors led to the eventual decline of the Roman Empire. The western half of the empire, including Hispania, Gaul, and Italy, eventually broke into independent kingdoms in the 5th century; the eastern empire, governed from Constantinople, is referred to as the Byzantine Empire after 476, the traditional date for the "fall of Rome" and subsequent onset of the Middle Ages.

Roman civilization is often grouped into "classical antiquity" with ancient Greece, a civilization that inspired much of the culture of ancient Rome. Ancient Rome contributed greatly to the development of law, war, art, literature, architecture, and language in the Western world, and its history continues to have a major influence on the world today.

Answer 6

That is a HUGE question, but worth studying, because in the final analysis, the last days of Rome will have had a great deal in common with the last days of the USA.
Look at Rome in it's last 20 years or so, and the parallels are all there, a society in decline, with money and power the prime motivators and no care for anyone else.
Unless you get rid of the idiot in Pennsylvania avenue PDQ, and get a compassionate leader in there, I'm telling you dude, There ain't gonna be any society left in the USA by 2050

Answer 7

Romans originated in the Mediterranean Area... there are people who are Romans they are in different countries... like Italy Greece morocco and countries from that area... That why alot of catholic church still read scripture in Latin...War caused them to vanish the roman empire collapsed due to spreading themselves thin from waring with other nations...

Answer 8

The Roman Empire conquered (what was then) the known world and established a ruleing class over it, and held it with the most advanced (again, at that time) army in the world.

Eventually as their resourced stretched too thin, and communication became more and more problematic, their ties on their holdings became too tenuous and one by one they reclaimed their independance.

Answer 9

They did not vanish, they evolved and blended. Italy has been conquered about 20 times since the rome days

Answer 10

After centuries of societal exposure to lead poisoning (used to line the aqueducts and make wine goblets) they became decadent and addled. They were easily over-run by barbarians who introduced their DNA (mostly through rape and pillaging) and the resulting offspring were the forefathers of today's Italians, who have been out on strike since WWII.