tom swift among the diamond makers

 The first chapter starts with the narrator talking about how great Roam was and how curiously people used to live then it changes and goes to a young man named Aleric and Aleric had a dream that he was going to be emperor of Rome one day just the issue was he was a german and not even a roman when he was older he gathered an army and sacked Greece and had tonnes nd tons of precious stones and money. After that, he sacked Rome three times before he died of a sickness.