The Dacians: Rome\'s Greatest Enemy?

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Just my 2 cents - by the time the goths arrived in Dacia in the early-4th century the Dacians had already mixed in with the local sarmatian population.

the Goths were a distinct culturegroup compared to the sarmatians/others already there. The Dacii and Getae may have somewhat mixed, but it wasn't enough to note a comparison. They still got smashed by the Huns, then Stilicho, then Constantius III, and then Aetius anyways. By the time of Aetius and afterwards the Visigoths and Amalic-Goths, plus the toher 6 Gothic Groups, were more roman than anything else.

Think of Civilization like effusion - the civilized technology and culture is gonna spread from areas of high concentration to low concentration.

Not only to mention the military capacity of the Vandals, Goths, and Huns was much greater than the Dacii.