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Explanation: Due to Rome’s longevity and its wide reach, there are a number of dates that can be used as its fall - some quite, uh, interesting. For bonus points, my date of choice isn’t here.
Oh, and for those curious, the most commonly accepted answers are:
476 AD (Fall of the city of Rome and the Western Empire)
1204 AD (Sack of Constantinople and the break of government continuity in the Byzantine Empire)
1453 AD (Siege of Constantinople and conquest of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Turks)
27 BCE (Fall of the Republic)
395 AD (Split of the Empire into East and West)
476 AD (Fall of the city of Rome and the Western Empire)
717 AD and 867 AD (Byzie stuff? Not sure)
1204 AD (Sack of Constantinople and the break of government continuity in the Byzantine Empire)
1453 AD (Siege of Constantinople and conquest of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Turks)
1806 AD (Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, the Germanic state which claimed legitimacy by being crowned by the Pope)
1917 AD (Fall of the Romanov dynasty which claimed dynastic continuity with the Byzantine Empire and called Russia the ‘Third Rome’)
Sound of Philip K Dick smashing option 10 repeatedly
This is my favorite comment. Perhaps ever. 🤣
1917 is REALLY stretching it
I request to add 480 to the list!
I’m just glad we can all agree it sure af wasn’t 1943.
Yes but is the Roman empire happy?
The answer is 12. Then, in the margins, you go on a deranged tirade about how an insignificant party fact was actually Rome died.
The answer is however the teacher thinks it happened, history is subjective like that
- Depends
Yesn’t
10 it lives with us and just requires a single apocalypse to come back life
