Title: The Fall of The Roman Empire
Headings: The Fall of The Roman Empire
The Fall of The Roman Empire
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Content: Constantine became emperor in AD 307 until AD 337 - he was considered a strong ruler and was also the first Christian emperor. Constantine felt that Rome was too far away from necessary areas of the empire to be much value from a government’s opinion. So he moved the empire’s capital to a new city named Constantinople, which was built on the old city of Byzantium. Constantine had not made a good decision by doing this as his new city was much further east than Rome in the eastern empire. So the western empire was left vulnerable, and was attacked via the eastern empire through different tribes. The Romans had no choice but to make deals with the tribes - they were allowed to live in the empire as long as they promised to protect it from the Huns. But in AD 398 the Visigoths tribe leader, Alaric, realised he could capture Rome quite easily and in AD 410 he succeeded. The other territory owned by Rome across Europe was also attacked by various tribes. Rome was attacked again in AD 455 by the Vandals and suffered a lot of damage. Historians state that the Roman empire officially ended in AD 476 when the last emperor (Romulus Augustus) was removed from power by the leader of the Goths (Odovacar).