1. The date of the Fall of the Roman Empire is hard to pinpoint.
2. The ‘Fall of the Roman Empire’ usually refers to just the Western Empire.
3. The Empire was put under pressure during the Migration Period.
4. In 378 AD Goths defeated and killed Emperor Valens in the Battle of Adrianople.
5. Alaric, the Visigothic leader who led the 310 AD Sack of Rome, wanted above all to be a Roman.
6. The Sack of Rome, now the capital of the Christian religion, had enormous symbolic power.
7. The Crossing of the Rhine in 405/6 AD brought around 100,000 barbarians (30,000 of whom were fighting men) into the Empire.
8. In 439 AD Vandals captured Carthage, the taking of which had signalled the st
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10. Julius Nepos still claimed to be Western Roman Emperor until 480 AD.
