id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7358 Historiography of the fall of the Western Roman Empire - Wikipedia .html text/html 10420 836 61 In 1984, Alexander Demandt enumerated 210 different theories on why Rome fell, and new theories emerged thereafter.[1][2] Gibbon himself explored ideas of internal decline (the disintegration of political, economic, military, and other social institutions, civil wars) and of attacks from outside the Empire. Some modern historians question the significance of the year 476 for its end.[5] Julius Nepos, the Western emperor recognized by the Eastern Roman Empire, continued to rule in Dalmatia, until he was assassinated in 480. The Roman Empire did not fall, did not decline, it just transformed but so did the Germanic populations which invaded it. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Fall of Rome – Decline of the Roman Empire – Lists many possible causes with references ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7358.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7358.txt