Rome\'s Longest War?

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Well the Romans were extremely adaptable, they were the longest lasting continuous nation in existance (China wasn't continuous, it kept breaking up, but the Roman central government always existed.)

Rome did not collapse to "uncivilized barbarians," they collapsed to "Romanized Barbarians." The Western Empire spurred its own downfall eventually, but there were lots of factors that led to the Roman collapse. It is rather universally agreed that the point of no return was the loss of Africa.