... was finally destroyed. This history essay will describe and account for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in the west from AD 198 to AD 476. The essay will start by giving a brief history of Rome, and then list the primary reasons and account for the fall of Western Rome. Rome began as a monarchy, but after about seven kings ruled the city, the people took over. Rome began to conquer territories around its borders, and soon it ... became a vast area from the north of England across the North Sea, along the Rhine and ... ...

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... as straining the Eastern Empire's military. Following these battles, Rome and countless Italian cities would fall into severe decline. Soon after another war began with the Persian invasion of the East in the 7th century, immediately followed by the Muslim conquests. The disruption of the Roman Empire by the Germanic invasions, left Europe in a very primitive state. The collapse brought about the fall of great cities, deterioration of transportation, the ruin of the Mediterranean trade, and the loss of European unity. The Empire in the west had been ... replaced by the Ostrogoth's in It...

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... of the pope After the Empires last links were severed in the west and it became known as Byzantium to historians, the Greek Church of the east finally parted company with the Latin Church of Rome, leaving the Latin church severed from its links to the now extinct western Empire. In time the dismembered Church, would become the official religion of all the western medieval states. The destruction of the Western Empire at the hands of the barbarians The Germanic peoples formed the largest grouping of barbarian peoples, in the ... Christianity's far reaching effects on western peoples of t...

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