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How Christianity changed the Roman Empire forever

Did Christianity really cause the fall of the Roman Empire — or is that one of history’s biggest myths? This episode breaks down the debate popularized by Edward Gibbon and examines both sides of the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Fall of the Roman Empire Was Less a Clash of Civilizations and More an Opportunity to Mix and Mingle, a New Genetics Study Shows

Researchers who analyzed genomes from early medieval graves in modern-day Germany hypothesize that people from the former ...
The Economist

The decline and fall of the Roman currency empire

In 1847 a few poor labourers living near Kottayam, a city in what is now the Indian state of Kerala, stumbled upon a hoard of gold coins. They exchanged these for a day’s worth of rice or a few rupees ...
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Did the Roman Empire really fall in 476 AD?

Most history books say that the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD. In that year, the young emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed by the Germanic general Odoacer. This event is often seen as the official ...