Alife is one in which the bridge between the governance and the governed is crossed, to some degree, and where someone that seeks to alter, correct, expand or narrow interaction with the government.

"A political life is one in which the bridge between the governance and the governed is crossed, to some degree, and where someone that seeks to alter, correct, expand or narrow  interaction with the government."

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Ongoing civil wars western roman empire finally collapsed476 c.e. romulus, the last of theroman  emperors in  the west, was overthrown by the germanic leader odoacer, who became the first barbarian to rule in rome. the order that the  roman empire  had brought towestern  europe for 1000 years was no more.