id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7897 Fall of the Western Roman Empire - Wikipedia .html text/html 19373 1870 67 The Roman Empire lost the strengths that had allowed it to exercise effective control over its Western provinces; modern historians posit factors including the effectiveness and numbers of the army, the health and numbers of the Roman population, the strength of the economy, the competence of the Emperors, the internal struggles for power, the religious changes of the period, and the efficiency of the civil administration. As one convenient marker for the end, 476 has been used since Gibbon, but other key dates for the fall of the Roman Empire in the West include the Crisis of the Third Century, the Crossing of the Rhine in 406 (or 405), the sack of Rome in 410, and the death of Julius Nepos in 480.[7][page needed] The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7897.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7897.txt