The fall of the Roman Empire is a topic that many have found of great interest. ... It was a gradual decay, which makes the fall of the Roman Empire so tragic. ... Most of Rome's assets laid greatly in the slave trade. ... Race mixture played an important role in the fall of the Roman Empire. ... One of the obvious reasons for Rome's down fall was in the way in which it conducted its politics. ...

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The Decline of Rome and Transformation into Medieval Europe: Contents 1. ... However Christianity left its mark on the world for all time, when the Emperor Constantine adopted the Christian faith as his own, and renounced the gods of Rome. ... Then came the Visigoths who sacked first Athens in 396 and then Rome in 410. ... Rome was again sacked by Genseric a vandal in 455. ... They withdrew later by the persuasion of the Patriarch of Rome, Leo I. ...

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The road to Rome continued to widen itself for Constantine and his seemingly invincible army. In the fall of 312, six years into his reign the keepers of the Sibylline Books prophesied that "the enemy of the Romans would die." Maxentius organized his forces (which still doubled the size of Constantine's army) preparing to make a final stand for Rome and his empire. ... Constantine had proven himself and entered the city of Rome on October 29th. ... The city was a symbol of Constantine's great success as a leader and emperor of Rome. ...

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The Middle Ages began with the fall of the Roman Empire and ended with a great renaissance. ... This culture says that a noble man should never be one to fall victim to shame, nor is he one to hesitate when being faced by the opposition (Cantor, ed. 3). ... Between 1050 and 1300, close to fifty percent of the Rome ideal was taken over by the papal authority. ... Francis was from the upper middle class between Rome and Florence. ... It may have started with the fall of an empire, but it made progress and eventually developed into a great era....

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It appears that the Church of Rome, which governed the Monastery in commendam, wished to exercise direct supervision also through the dispatch of regular clergy there as its representatives. ... After a hard-fought campaign lasting a whole year, the capture of the unfortunate island was completed with the fall of Famagusta in August 1571, within a ghastly context of massacres, pillage, rapine and destruction, The dark period of Ottoman rule had begun for Cyprus. ...

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