If we put our ear to the ground, would we, too, sense a vast movement of reindeer across the primordial plateaus of Europe, buffalo across the plains of North America, and deer moving across the midlands of England? Australia and New Zealand would surely not be exempt from the startled herds, for they are the West in law and language, customs, and media connectedness. Why do they move so "silently and fast?" In 410 A.D., the massive movement of the reindeer preceded the allied armies of Alaric: the unified Goths and Vandals. The mighty Roman Empire had passed the tipping point. King Alaric's powerful armies, more brutal that Rome, more determined, and more unified, defeated the Eternal City and rendered it finite.