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Why did the western empire fall when the east survived?
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Why did the western empire fall when the east survived? Most historians agree that Romulus Augustlus was the last leader of the Western Roman Empire. His reign ended in 476 and we can therefore state that the Western Roman Empire fell at the same time, although other historians may argue for a slightly longer lifespan. These technicalities are in some ways irrelevant. The Eastern Empire survived the fifth century, whilst the Western Empire crumbled. Traditionally historians have blamed social, economic and psychological factors for the collapse. The "sacred rhetoric", as Brown calls it, describes the Western Empire as crumbling from within. More modern historians place more emphasis on the so-called external problems that afflicted the Western Empire in this period. In this essay I hope to analyse both the internal and external problems of the Western Empire, whilst continuing to compare the problems of the west to the problems of its...
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