The Eastern Empire managed to divert the Visigoths into Italy, thus shoving the problem onto the Western Empire, which responded to this threat by pulling troops from the Rhine frontier. This triggered a pattern of events much like the cycle of anarchy in the third century C.E., only this time, no Aurelian or Diocletian emerged to save the Empire.
Because latitude runs from the equator to one or the other of the poles, 90 degrees. That's one-fourth of a full circle around the globe. Longitude starts at Greenwich, Englanâ¦d and runs, to the west or to the east, to the International Date Line (in the Pacific Ocean), 180 degrees.
Latitude and longitude are both measured in degrees. Each degree (Â°) is subdivided into 60 minutes (') and each minute into 60 seconds (). Each degree of latitude corresponds to a distance on the Earthâs surface of about 111 km.Each degree of longitude however, corresponds to a distance that varies with latitude. The distance is about 111 km at the Equator, reducing to 0 km at the Poles.henever the unqualified term latitude is used, it will normally mean the geographic latitude. On the WGS84 ellipsoid, the length of a degree of latitude increases from 110.574 km at the equator to 111.694 km at the poles.