The Aquitanii Imperium handled foreign policy in stark contrast to its modern successor. Engagements with the world, both in economy and war was standard and is what helped the old imperium evolve to what it came to be in its height; the same would later contribute to its fall at the hands of extreme foreigners. The latter, specialists say, may have contributed to the relative isolated demeanor Aquitanians adopted after the expulsion of the Sevintrians.