Average climate in Aurora, Maine. Based on data reported by over 4,000 weather stations. Earthquake activity: Aurora-area historical earthquake activity is slightly below Maine state average. It is 93% smaller than the overall U.S. average.
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.
The most traditional answer to this question was given by Sir Edward Gibbon, in his famous The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I'll outline it here shortly as follows. 1) The Roman Empire succumbed to barbarian invasions in large part due to the gradual loss of civic virtue among its citizens.