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1. 1. The Fall Of The Roman Empire

   

   This book traces the gradual collapse of the Western Roman world, examining the military defeats, political corruption and instability, economic troubles, social decay, and administrative divisions that weakened imperial authority, while chronicling the pressures from migrating and invading peoples and the growing influence of Christianity; it weaves these factors into a narrative of the fourth and fifth centuries that explains how Rome’s institutions transformed, territories fragmented, and a new European order emerged from the empire’s ashes.