Economic motives drove Germanic integration into the Roman Empire

Evidence

Both Pirenne and Latouche argue that long before the mounting of political pressures on the Germanic tribes by subsequent “barbarian” peoples—the Iranians, Mongols, Slavs, and Hungarians—the Goths were motivated by essentially economic reasons to integrate with the more productive peoples of the Empire. Pirenne, op. cit., pp. 37–39; Latouche, op. cit., pp. 42–45. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1467

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Roman army acts as a primary vehicle for imperial cultural integration — Stephen Kershaw, A Brief History of the Roman Empire, 414; In-kind taxes explain why conquered Gauls accepted Frankish rule — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 167
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Roman army acts as a primary vehicle for imperial cultural integration — Stephen Kershaw, A Brief History of the Roman Empire, 414; In-kind taxes explain why conquered Gauls accepted Frankish rule — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 167