The traditional date marking the fall of Rome is 476 CE, when the German general Odoacer overthrew the last Roman emperor in the West -Much that had characterized Roman civilization also weakened, declined, or disappeared in the several centuries before and after 476 Any semblance of large-scale centralized rule vanished Disease and warfare reduced Western Europe's population by more than 25 percent Urban life diminished as Europeans reverted to a largely rural existence Germanic peoples, whom the Romans viewed as barbarians – Goths, Visigoths, Franks, Lombards, Angles, and Saxons emerged as the dominant peoples of Western Europe E.Napp
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