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All the aforesaid socio-economic and political causes led to the fall of the Roman Empire in the west. The eastern part of the Empire continued to rise as the âByzantine Empireâ until 1453, when it was finally overthrown. More Articles : Causes For Fall Of Roman Empire. By the end of 476 AD, the Roman Empire was completely devastated due to invasions by Germany. There was a constant pressure being built up by the German tribes on the Roman Empire.
In his masterwork, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, historian Edward Gibbon names the date AD 476 as the year Rome ceased to exist. That date has been generally accepted because that's when the Germanic king of the Torcilingi Odoacer deposed the last Roman emperor to rule the western part of the Roman Empire.