Reposted by Do Dadiada Da
This was actually the pretty direct cause of the final collapse of the Western Empire. When the Vandals conquered the Roman provinces in North Africa (Tunisia, etc) that was the grain production. Triggered collapse of state/military power and that was it. No grain, no money, no army, no state.
![By now the Roman imperial economy depended heavily on African agriculture, manufacturing, and trade, much of which was in the hands of Africans themselves. At the same time, local landowners attained great power and status in Rome: by the 180s CE nearly a third of Roman senators were of African origin.[33] These were men like Septimius Severus,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lzlqyldh7nfc34pfffvd24ko/bafkreihnug56wzczu6qvirzzepjtp7owp3tynpy2sqw6bset7o53w4zhbu)
