História da Idade Média — Introdução e o Declínio de Roma + 4 more topics

The reasons for Rome's fall are debated among historians, but several factors clearly played a significant role:

By 476, much of the Western Empire was already under the control of various Germanic kingdoms. The Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, with its capital at Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), continued to thrive for another thousand years, preserving much of Roman law, culture, and learning.