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How Did Roman Institutions Survive the Fall of Rome? - The Transformation of the Western Roman Empire | Sleepy Facts About History
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Most of us carry a mental picture of the fall of Rome as a sudden, catastrophic collapse, where barbarian hordes extinguished a civilization in a single dramatic moment. That picture is not entirely wrong, but it is badly incomplete. When the last western emperor was deposed in 476, Roman government did not simply stop everywhere at once. Instead, Western Europe entered a prolonged, uneven experiment in which old imperial institutions were gradually disassembled and rewired to serve new…
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