In 410 C.E. the Visigoths, led by Alaric, broke the Roman walls and plundered the capital of the Roman Empire. However, the collapse of Rome was completed by 476, when German chief Odoacer expelled the last Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus. The richer and more powerful Byzantine Empire continued to survive throughout the Middle Ages of Europe. Over the years, the Roman Empire had gradually lost the strengths that allowed it to effectively control the western states. Modern historians assume factors such as the effectiveness and number of troops, the health and number of the Roman population, the strength of the economy, the emperor's abilities, the internal power struggle, the religious changes of the times, and the efficiency of civil administrations to be all causes for the Fall of Rome. As early as i 376, countless Goths and other non-Romans fled the Huns and entered the empire. In 395, Theodosius I died after winning two devastating civil wars leaving behind a collapsed Field Army. And the empire, still ravaged by the Goths, was divided between the fighting ministers of His two incompetent sons. However, more recent studies suggest three major turn of events in the transformation of the Western Roman Empire from the heights of power. The Antonine Plague that that ended the long-term expansion of demographics and economy and weakened but did not overthrow the empire. The Crisis of the Third Century, in which climatic change, renewed pandemic disease, and internal and external political instability led to the near-collapse of the imperial system. Its recovery included a new foundation of currency, an expanded of professional device of government, an emperor further away from their people, and an exclusive proselytizing religion that catered anticipation of the imminent end of the world. Massive migration from the Eurasian Steppe overwhelmed and dismantled the western part of the empire. (Credit: Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empire, Wiki & ushistory . org )
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