What happened to the roman culture after the fall of the West? It feels a lot like it just disappeared as the Germanic culture took over all of Europe. Did it disappear or did the Barbarians conquer Rome, but were culturally dominated by it?
We get this question all the time, u/shlin28 wrote this great answer two years ago which I really like, but we've had a whole bunch which are great.
Anyway, to quote from the answer I linked:
Parts of the empire fell beyond centralised control or were seized by warlords, but these new rulers generally tried their hardest to maintain the Roman form of government, since you know, it collected taxes, provided security and maintained a justice system - why would any king want to get rid of that? Though the empire itself was gone, the system, or at least parts of it, that the empire embodied remained for many people.