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[โ€“] dustyData@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It took Rome anything between one and five centuries to fall. Damn, if you ask some people today it's possible to argue that the Roman empire still technically exists.

It doesn't, it finished falling in 1453 when the Turks conquered the Eastern capital of Constantinople.