America's Aurelian when?
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> One generation Makes sense if you have the lifespan of Methuselah or Yoda
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Guessing that "reading a lot on the topic" consisted of "listening to the Dan Carlin podcast on the fall of the Roman Republic," and not knowing the difference.
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Remembering that chapter Gibbon wrote on the decline and fall of the Roman empire.
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The HRE didn't "fall", it was abolished by Napoleon, in much less than one generation.
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Yeah... I’ve read a *bit* on the subject and the literature is abundantly clear that when the western empire fell *if it did at all* is still an active debate!
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It kind of did, if you mean in the west. I don’t think if you were in the time of Flaevius Aetius after Châlons you would imagine that Odoacer would send the regalia west in less than thirty years.
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Or do you think that Gallia Placida had any idea at her wedding to Stillicho’s son that she would see the sack of Rome
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