The date of the destruction of the far-flung Roman Empire is usually given as A.D. 476, the year when the last Roman emperor was deposed. There were numerous reasons for the decline and eventual fall of the Roman Empire. Rulers were apathetic, the bureaucracy was monolithic, and the frontier was too large to defend. In the waning years of the empire, economic instability, civil wars, and inflation caused problems.
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