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How Did Rome Live After The Fall Of Rome?

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Many history books claim the fall of Rome was on September 4, 476 Romulus Augustulus was stripped of his power, but the reality is Rome lived on many more years after the “fall”.
Rome continued to live after September 4, 476 because the government kept running. Consuls continued to be elected and the Senate continued to rule. The eastern part of the Empire was still strong but not united with the western side of the Empire.
Emperors continued to be crowned in the Roman Empire such Charlemagne and Otto I, the great warrior king of the Saxons. The line of Emperors he founded continued until they were overthrown by the Napoleon.
The little land that was left of the Empire was finally conquered in 1453 by the Turkish sultan Mehmet II, when he

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