This chapter examines the impact of the sack of Rome on power dynamics, detailing the Vandals' rise in North Africa and the tumultuous relationship with the Huns under Attila. It concludes with the political upheaval leading to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, highlighting key events and figures that shaped this historical decline.
The fall of Rome was completed in 476, when the German chieftain Odoacer deposed the last Roman emperor of the West, Romulus Augustulus. The East, always richer and stronger, continued as the Byzantine Empire through the European Middle Ages. But here we will tell the story of the fall of the west and the rise of the east
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