The Roman Empire “fell” about a dozen times over the course of roughly a millennium and still has major impacts today. One could even ask if it truly has fallen or simply changed form, even if there isn’t a completely direct line of transfer of political power. Though even that took until the end of WWI for that to sort of happen, and one could even point to the last successor empire becoming a republic as retaining that bit of Roman identity with the Gates of Janus finally closing on the empirial militarism
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