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Because one day, about three hundred years ago, historians decided it would be easier for students if world history were divided into three periods: Ancient, Medival, and Modern. And they figured that 476--the year of Rome's last emperor--was a nice date to use in marking the end of an epoch. ... Why did Rome fall?
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www.tamos.net/~rhay/romefall.html
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Reasons for the Fall of Rome or the decline of the Roman Empire and reasons for dating the end of the Roman Empire. ... Historians of the Fall of Rome...
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ancienthistory.about.com/cs/romefallarticles/a/fallofro...
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Common theories or reasons for the fall of rome. ... Reasons for the Fall of Rome ... Edward Gibbon and others pick this for the date of the fall of Rome. The Sack of Rome in 410 is also popular as a date for Rome's fall. Some say the Roman Empire never fell. But assuming it did fall, why did it fall?
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Rome fell in 476 when the Germanic Odoacer deposed the last Roman emperor. ChaCha
http://www.chacha.com/question/what-year-did-rome-fall
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Rome's ability to control its borders was a problem addressed in a tract called On Matters of Warfare, written anonymously for the imperial bureaucracy. ... Valentinian conscripted as best he could every year, but the wars among Constantine's sons had reduced the source of manpower for the military.
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www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch24.htm
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But did Rome fall? Joining us on the ... MR. WATTENBERG: So it's a 45-year reign of Augustus. And whathappens during that period that makes it into an empire? It had beena city state basically, is that --; MS. FENTRESS: No. Rome had been conquering the rest of theMediterranean busily for a very long time at that point.
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DID ROME FALL, OR WAS IT PUSHED? ... So, why did Rome fall? Could their fate have been averted, and if so, would the world be different today? The answer lies in what you think after you have looked at all the facts. Let's examine what we know. We know the great empire known as Rome no longer exists.
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score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/rome/rome.html
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Although some years do fall into a simple internal-external-internal pattern, the alternation between internal and external ... The consuls' movements between Rome and their provinces provide a chronological structure, ensuring that the main accounts of domestic events generally come at the beginning and end of the year,
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www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/1997/rich1.html
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The year 476 SYMBOLIZES THE END OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE WEST. In this year the long line of emperors inaugurated by Augustus ended and the ... Thus Rome's fall was part of the divine plan -- "the necessary and fortunate preparation for the triumph of the heavenly city where man's destiny was to be attained."
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members.tripod.com/wc1003/fall_of_rome.htm
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