Germanic Immigrants

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There were several problems. They faced massive immigration from Germanic tribes in the northwest, payment for civil jobs had not kept up with inflation, there was no efficient and reliable system for communication over great distances. A substantial number of wealthy and powerful citizens were abandoning the western half of the empire and moving to the larger cities in the east, and many powerful families in the west were leaving the cities and retiring to private estates in the

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