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Pope Leo XIV has declared himself a Roman as he completes the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome ...

The exact date for the Western Roman Empire's fall is up for debate, with some saying it happened in A.D. 410 with the Sack of Rome by the Visigoths, and others putting it at A.D. 476, with the ...

But in 364 CE, it fell to just 29mm ... expanded their climate-conflict analysis to the entire Roman Empire for the period 350-476 CE. They reconstructed the climate conditions immediately ...

usually dated to the fall of ancient Rome in 476 CE, marked the end of classical antiquity. What they don’t always agree on, however, is what caused the Empire’s infamous decline. Theories ...

From its foundation in 27 BC under Augustus to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD and the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire in 1453, Rome left an indelible mark on human history. Over its ...

Most people now cite the year 476 C.E. as the year when Rome fell — but was it, really? While it’s true that the Western Roman Empire was overtaken by barbarian warrior Odoacer that year, he kept most ...

The Roman Empire decline was long and lasted until 476, when Rome fell to a barbarian Germanic tribe led by Odoacer who staged a revolt and deposed Emperor Romulus Augustulus. The dawn of the 3rd ...

Yet, the abdication of Emperor Romulus Augustulus on September 4, 476 marks the fall of the Western Roman Empire. So, what caused the downfall of the Roman Empire (which began in 27 BC)?

Though Romulus Augustulus had been usurped in 476, Zeno, the emperor of the eastern ... Watts points out in The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea, “no one in ...