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It fell, (quite violently, in fact) in the third century. The rest was pretense.
by accidentallfact 7mo ago
It fell, (quite violently, in fact) in the third century. The rest was pretense.
- seanw444 7mo agoThe western half, sure. You're ignoring the eastern half which carried the mantle for another thousand years. And the concurrent existence of the Holy Roman Empire, which was also intertwined with the Roman Catholic church.