When did Rome fall?

[Still Waters]

The "Fall of Rome" usually refers to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D. But historians don't agree about the exact date, nor about its causes. And some historians argue that the Roman Empire lasted until it fell in the East, centuries later. 

At its height around A.D. 100, the Roman Empire stretched from modern Britain, France and much of Germany in the northwest to Egypt, Israel and Jordan in the southeast, and from what are now Morocco and Spain to Romania, Armenia and Iraq. Later emperors divided it into more manageable pieces, resulting in the Western and Eastern Roman Empires. But by the end of the fifth century A.D., the Western Roman Empire, from Britain to Italy, had collapsed and been replaced by a patchwork of "barbarian" kingdoms. 

https://www.livescience.com/when-did-rome-fall

[+Desertrat56]

And now it has spread around the world, even in China.  We are still living in the roman empire.   It is now called "The Holy Roman Empire".    Rome has not fallen and won't until the catholic church and all it's different sects fall or disappear.

Edited February 6 by Desertrat56

[HSlim]

1 hour ago, Desertrat56 said:

And now it has spread around the world, even in China.  We are still living in the roman empire.   It is now called "The Holy Roman Empire".    Rome has not fallen and won't until the catholic church and all it's different sects fall or disappear.

No lie, I'd love to wake up to the news that the Catholic Church is gone. 

[029b10]

11 hours ago, Desertrat56 said:

It is now called "The Holy Roman Empire"

u     And all this time I thought it was called the United Nations  

[Piney]

The early church fathers burning  every scientific tome they could get their hands on and killing pagan scholars......*cough* Athanasius....*cough*.......didn't help.

Edited February 7 by Piney
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[+Desertrat56]

1 hour ago, Piney said:

The early church fathers burning  every scientific tome they could get their hands on and killing pagan scholars......*cough* Athanasius....*cough*.......didn't help.

What about the Jesuits?   When did that sect start?   Maybe they rescued some of those tomes before they were burned.

[Piney]

34 minutes ago, Desertrat56 said:

What about the Jesuits?   When did that sect start?   Maybe they rescued some of those tomes before they were burned.

They came later and tried to control knowledge.