Rome - and the Western Roman Empire - fell in 476 AD. The 'eternal city' was brought down by political corruption, the division of the empire - and, finally, an invasion by multiple Germanic ...
What we think of as the Roman Empire lasted from 27 BCE to 476 AD. But the end of the Roman Empire is way more complicated than that, with some putting the official end at 1453, some at 1806, and some ...