When was the Fall of the Roman Empire?

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When was the Fall of the Roman Empire?

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September 4, 476

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the Fall of the Roman Empire was is 1964 , please vote as best asnwer, thanks!  :) !

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Here is a link that might help. If it works. good luck

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Rom...

Answer 4

About 500 AD or thereabouts

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400 A.D. it didn't end actually at that time but yea around their

that's when the middle ages,dark ages, or mild-evil time began it lasted to 1400 AD until commerical nd trade became stronger

Answer 6

Yesterday

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Really debateable.  Some people consider the fall of the Roman empire as in 476 CE.  Others keep counting it through the survival of the East Roman Empire and into the Byzantine empire until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453

Answer 8

Right after the summer; the leaves in Rome were beautiful back in the day. There were more trees then.

Answer 9

When they were overrun by aliens, which would have been about 237 .A. D., but the actual crushing defeats came in 400 if not mistaken.  I would google and it depends on when you mean the start or the end. It was peoples they had trained, how ironic. Take care.

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in early Sept, right after school started...

Answer 11

50 years after Jesus' death.

Answer 12

when an obama`s ancestor became emperor

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The decline of the Roman Empire is one of the events which traditionally mark the end of Classical Antiquity and the start of the European Middle Ages. Throughout the fifth century, the Empire's territories in western Europe and northwestern Africa, including Italy, fell to various invading or indigenous peoples in what is sometimes called the Migration period. Although its eastern half still survived with borders essentially intact for several centuries (until the Arab expansion), the Empire as a whole had initiated major cultural and political transformations since the Crisis of the Third Century, with the shift towards a more openly autocratic and ritualized form of government, the adoption of Christianity as the state religion, and a general rejection and abandonment of the traditions and values of Classical Antiquity. While traditional historiography emphasized this break with Antiquity by using the term "Byzantine Empire" instead of Roman Empire, recent schools of history offer a more nuanced view, seeing mostly continuity rather than a sharp break. The Empire of Late Antiquity was already a very different state from classical Rome.

The Roman Empire had emerged from the Roman Republic as a result of the rise of Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar who undertook its transformation from a republic into a monarchy. It reached its zenith in the second century, and from that point onward saw its fortunes slowly decline, albeit with many revivals and restorations along the way. The reasons for the decline of the Empire are still debated today, and likely multiple. There is, in any case, evidence of some demographic contraction. The population appears to have diminished in many provinces, especially in western Europe, as can be inferred from the size of the fortifications built to protect the cities from barbarian incursions from the 3rd century on, often restricted to the center of the city only, suggesting that parts of the periphery were not inhabited anymore.

By the late third century the city of Rome no longer served as an effective capital for the Emperor and various cities were used as new administrative capitals. Successive emperors, starting with Constantine, privileged the eastern city of Byzantium, which he had entirely rebuilt after a siege. Later renamed Constantinople, and protected by formidable walls in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, it was to become the largest and most powerful city of Christian Europe in the Early Middle Ages. Since the Crisis of the Third Century, the Empire was intermittently ruled by more than one emperor at once (usually two), presiding over different regions. At first a haphazard form of power sharing, this eventually settled on an East-West administrative division between the Western Roman Empire (centered on Rome, but now usually presided from other seats of power such as Trier, Milan, and especially Ravenna), and the Eastern Roman Empire (with its capital initially in Nicomedia, and later Constantinople). The Latin-speaking west, under severe demographic crisis, and the wealthier Greek-speaking east, also began to diverge politically and culturally. Although this was a gradual process, still incomplete when Italy came under the rule of Barbarian chieftains in the last quarter of the 5th century, it would deepen further afterwards, and have lasting consequences for the medieval history of Europe.

Throughout the fifth century, western emperors were usually figureheads, while in the East emperors managed to secure their independence from influential military leaders. For most of the time, the actual rulers in the West were military strongmen who took the titles of magister militum, patrician, or both, such as Stilicho and Aetius. Although Rome was no longer the capital in the West it remained the West's largest city and its economic center. But the city was sacked by rebelled Visigoths in 410 (for three days) and later again by the Vandals in 455 (for fourteen days), events which shocked the contemporaries and signalled the disintegration of Roman authority. Saint Augustine wrote The City of God partly as an answer to critics who blamed the sack of Rome by the Visigoths on the abandonment of the traditional pagan religions.

In June 474, Julius Nepos became Western Emperor but in the next year the magister militum Orestes revolted and made his son Romulus Augustus emperor. Romulus, however, was not recognized by the Eastern Emperor Zeno and so was technically an usurper, Nepos still being the legal Western Emperor. Nevertheless, Romulus Augustus is often known as the last Western Roman Emperor. In 476 after being refused lands in Italy, Orestes' Germanic mercenaries, led by the chieftain Odoacer, captured and executed Orestes and took Ravenna, the Western Roman capital at the time, deposing Romulus Augustus. The whole of Italy was quickly conquered and Odoacer was granted the title of patrician by Zeno effectively recognizing his rule in the name o

Answer 14

September 4,1453

Answer 15

476 AD I learned that last skool year

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The traditional date of the fall of the Roman Empire is September 4, 476 when Romulus Augustulus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire was deposed by Odoacer.