{"id":604967,"date":"2023-02-03T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/when-did-rome-fall\/"},"modified":"2023-02-03T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T10:00:00","slug":"when-did-rome-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/03\/when-did-rome-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"When did Rome fall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<article aria-label=\"article\" data-id=\"VQmJrWDPdWHEALiV7pCNri\">\n<header>\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\">\n<ol>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\" aria-label=\"Return to Home\">Home<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/references\" aria-label=\"Return to References\">References<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div itemprop=\"image\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div>\n<picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" alt=\"Colored engraving of the sack of Rome by the Visigoths led by Alaric I in 410. Soldiers are wielding swords and attacking the city on horseback.\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\"   data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/CEipb76Z6oo8LUniAVqnuY.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/CEipb76Z6oo8LUniAVqnuY.jpg\"><source type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Colored engraving of the sack of Rome by the Visigoths led by Alaric I in 410. Soldiers are wielding swords and attacking the city on horseback.\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\"   data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/CEipb76Z6oo8LUniAVqnuY.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/CEipb76Z6oo8LUniAVqnuY.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/CEipb76Z6oo8LUniAVqnuY-320-80.jpg\" alt=\"Colored engraving of the sack of Rome by the Visigoths led by Alaric I in 410. Soldiers are wielding swords and attacking the city on horseback.\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\"   data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/CEipb76Z6oo8LUniAVqnuY.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/CEipb76Z6oo8LUniAVqnuY.jpg\"><\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<p><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/CEipb76Z6oo8LUniAVqnuY.jpg\"><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"600\"><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"338\"><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\">\n<span>Here we see a colored engraving showing the sack of Rome by the Visigoths led by Alaric I in 410, during the reign of Emperor Honorius. <\/span><br \/>\n<span itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: PHAS \/ Contributor via Getty Images)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The &#8220;Fall of Rome&#8221; usually refers to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D. But historians don&#8217;t agree about the exact date, nor about its causes. And some historians argue that the Roman Empire lasted until it fell in the East, centuries later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At its height around A.D. 100, the Roman Empire stretched from modern Britain, France and much of Germany in the northwest to Egypt, Israel and Jordan in the southeast, and from what are now Morocco and Spain to Romania, Armenia and Iraq. Later emperors divided it into more manageable pieces, resulting in the Western and Eastern Roman Empires. But by the end of the fifth century A.D., the Western Roman Empire, from Britain to Italy, had collapsed and been replaced by a patchwork of &#8220;barbarian&#8221; kingdoms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Part fell to invaders, and part disintegrated,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.ox.ac.uk\/people\/professor-bryan-ward-perkins\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.history.ox.ac.uk\/people\/professor-bryan-ward-perkins\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Bryan Ward-Perkins<\/u><\/a><span> (opens in new tab)<\/span>, a historian at the University of Oxford and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=74387&#038;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2FFall-Rome-End-Civilization%2Fdp%2F0192807285%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dlivescience-us-1061353210279259000-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fall-Rome-End-Civilization\/dp\/0192807285\" data-hl-processed=\"hawklinks\" data-placeholder-url=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=74387&#038;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2FFall-Rome-End-Civilization%2Fdp%2F0192807285%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dhawk-custom-tracking-20\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-merchant-name=\"Amazon US\" data-merchant-id=\"1471\" data-merchant-url=\"amazon.com\" data-merchant-network=\"Amazon\"><u>The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization<\/u><\/a><span> (opens in new tab)<\/span>&#8221; (Oxford University Press, 2006), told Live Science in an email. &#8220;What difference this made to people on the ground is disputed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/did-nero-fiddle-while-rome-burned\"><u><strong>Did Nero really fiddle while Rome burned?<\/strong><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"section-sack-of-rome-a-d-410\"><span>Sack of Rome, A.D. 410<\/span><\/h3>\n<figure data-bordeaux-image-check>\n<div>\n<p><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" alt=\"A map showing the division of the Roman Empire, with the Western in aqua and the Eastern in pink.\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\" data-normal=\"https:\/\/vanilla.futurecdn.net\/livescience\/media\/img\/missing-image.svg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-320-80.jpg.webp 320w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-480-80.jpg.webp 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-650-80.jpg.webp 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-970-80.jpg.webp 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-1024-80.jpg.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-1200-80.jpg.webp 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb.jpg\"><source type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"A map showing the division of the Roman Empire, with the Western in aqua and the Eastern in pink.\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\" data-normal=\"https:\/\/vanilla.futurecdn.net\/livescience\/media\/img\/missing-image.svg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-320-80.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-480-80.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-650-80.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-970-80.jpg 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-1024-80.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-1200-80.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb.jpg\" alt=\"A map showing the division of the Roman Empire, with the Western in aqua and the Eastern in pink.\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\" data-normal=\"https:\/\/vanilla.futurecdn.net\/livescience\/media\/img\/missing-image.svg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-320-80.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-480-80.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-650-80.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-970-80.jpg 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-1024-80.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb-1200-80.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SaGE2Vim932Df4Hv49rCKb.jpg\" ><\/picture><\/p>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\"><span>A map showing the division of the Roman Empire, with the Western in aqua and the Eastern in pink. <\/span><span itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Sidhe via Shutterstock)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some historians regard Aug. 24, 410, as the decisive date of the fall of Rome. On this date, an army of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/45948-ancient-goths.html\"><u>Visigoths<\/u><\/a> sacked the city of Rome \u2014 the first time since it had been overrun by Gauls during the early Roman Republic, almost 800 years earlier. The Visigoths (Western Goths) had fled the Huns&#8217; invasions of Eastern Europe in the fourth century. But in 378, after defeating a Roman army at the Battle of Adrianople (now Edirne, Turkey), the Visigoths were given lands on the empire&#8217;s northern border to control and guard themselves from invaders. However, a few decades later, they again began marauding the empire; in 408, they invaded Italy, and in 410, they besieged and sacked Rome.<\/p>\n<p>By this time, the Roman Empire was centered in Constantinople in the east, and even Western Roman emperors lived in Milan (then called Mediolanum) or Ravenna in northern Italy. But Rome was the &#8220;eternal city&#8221; and the sacred heart of the empire, and many of the empire\u2019s inhabitants saw this as the end. &#8220;The cultural shock was resounding \u2026 but the practical impact seems limited,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/humanities\/departments\/classics-and-archaeology\/people\/will.bowden\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/humanities\/departments\/classics-and-archaeology\/people\/will.bowden\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>William Bowden<\/u><\/a><span> (opens in new tab)<\/span>, an professor of Roman archaeology at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, told Live Science.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As city sackings go, it doesn&#8217;t sound too bad: Many famous monuments and buildings were untouched, and because the Visigoths were Christians, they allowed people to take refuge in churches. The Visigoths withdrew from Italy a few years later.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"section-abdication-of-romulus-augustulus-a-d-476\"><span>Abdication of Romulus Augustulus, A.D. 476<\/span><\/h3>\n<figure data-bordeaux-image-check>\n<div>\n<p><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" alt=\"An illustration of Romulus Augustulus (standing on the ground surrounded by people) surrendering to Odoacer, who is riding a horse.\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\" data-normal=\"https:\/\/vanilla.futurecdn.net\/livescience\/media\/img\/missing-image.svg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-320-80.jpg.webp 320w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-480-80.jpg.webp 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-650-80.jpg.webp 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-970-80.jpg.webp 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-1024-80.jpg.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-1200-80.jpg.webp 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP.jpg\"><source type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"An illustration of Romulus Augustulus (standing on the ground surrounded by people) surrendering to Odoacer, who is riding a horse.\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\" data-normal=\"https:\/\/vanilla.futurecdn.net\/livescience\/media\/img\/missing-image.svg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-320-80.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-480-80.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-650-80.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-970-80.jpg 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-1024-80.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-1200-80.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP.jpg\" alt=\"An illustration of Romulus Augustulus (standing on the ground surrounded by people) surrendering to Odoacer, who is riding a horse.\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\" data-normal=\"https:\/\/vanilla.futurecdn.net\/livescience\/media\/img\/missing-image.svg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-320-80.jpg 320w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-480-80.jpg 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-650-80.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-970-80.jpg 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-1024-80.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP-1200-80.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/RZFcD7BCkqkDPYRVSF9HyP.jpg\" ><\/picture><\/p>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\"><span>An illustration showing Romulus Augustulus surrendering to Odoacer, the barbarian king of Italy, in A.D. 476. <\/span><span itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Bettmann\/Contributor via Getty Images)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some historians regard the formal end of the Western Roman Empire as taking place decades later, on Sept. 4, 476, when Odoacer, the first barbarian king of Italy, forced the young emperor Romulus Augustulus to abdicate. Odoacer had been a Roman general of Germanic descent who professed loyalty to the Eastern Roman emperor, and he took Romulus captive at Ravenna after defeating the 16-year-old&#8217;s father in battle. Odoacer didn&#8217;t kill Romulus, however; because of his youth, he was instead given a pension and sent to live with relatives. (Odoacer ruled from Ravenna until 493, when he was killed by an invading Ostrogoth \u2014 Eastern Goth \u2014 army under their leader, Theodoric the Great, who established a powerful new kingdom in Italy.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of an important moment,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/peter-heather\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/people\/peter-heather\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>Peter Heather<\/u><\/a><span> (opens in new tab)<\/span>, a historian at King&#8217;s College London and author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=74387&#038;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2FFall-Roman-Empire-History-Barbarians-dp-0195325419%2Fdp%2F0195325419%2Fref%3Ddp_ob_title_bk%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dlivescience-us-7242325915976808000-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fall-Roman-Empire-History-Barbarians-dp-0195325419\/dp\/0195325419\/ref=dp_ob_title_bk\" data-hl-processed=\"hawklinks\" data-placeholder-url=\"https:\/\/target.georiot.com\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=74387&#038;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Famazon.com%2FFall-Roman-Empire-History-Barbarians-dp-0195325419%2Fdp%2F0195325419%2Fref%3Ddp_ob_title_bk%3Ftag%3Dhawk-future-20%26ascsubtag%3Dhawk-custom-tracking-20\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" data-merchant-name=\"Amazon US\" data-merchant-id=\"1471\" data-merchant-url=\"amazon.com\" data-merchant-network=\"Amazon\"><u>The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians<\/u><\/a><span> (opens in new tab)<\/span>&#8221; (Oxford University Press, 2007), told Live Science. &#8220;Odoacer sent the imperial vestments of the West back to Constantinople, along with delegation from the Senate of Rome, and the delegation says, &#8216;There&#8217;s no longer any need for an emperor in the West.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By this time, many regions of the Western empire were already effectively independent kingdoms, but &#8220;if you&#8217;re looking for a symbolic moment, it&#8217;s a pretty good one,&#8221; Heather said.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"section-empire-in-the-east\"><span>Empire in the East<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>By the fifth century A.D., however, the focus of the empire had shifted east to Constantinople, now Istanbul. Once the Greek city of Byzantium, the city was rebuilt in A.D. 330 by the emperor Constantine the Great, who transferred the imperial capital to his &#8220;New Rome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My own view is that the eastern half of the Roman Empire is still the Roman Empire,&#8221; Heather said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not unchanging, but there is a sort of continuity of change, not any great rupture.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453, Heather sees its decline in the Arab invasions from 632 until 661, when they captured Egypt, the Levant, and parts of Anatolia from the Eastern Roman Empire. &#8220;The Arabs take about three-quarters of the empire&#8217;s revenue and about three-quarters of its territory,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a totally different kind of entity after the Arab conquest. \u2026 it reduces the empire from a global power to a regional power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-reactroot id=\"slice-container-authorBio\">\n<p>Tom Metcalfe is a freelance journalist and regular Live Science contributor who is based in London in the United Kingdom. Tom writes mainly about science, space, archaeology, the Earth and the oceans. He has also written for the BBC, NBC News, National Geographic, Scientific American, Air &#038; Space, and many others.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/when-did-rome-fall\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Erasmo Redner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home References Here we see a colored engraving showing the sack of Rome by the Visigoths led by Alaric I in 410, during the reign of Emperor Honorius. (Image credit: PHAS \/ Contributor via Getty Images) The &#8220;Fall of Rome&#8221; usually refers to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D. 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