Thread: The Gladiator
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Old 11-26-2004, 01:24 AM   #3
dplax
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It was all because of the nomad tribes coming from the east and the decadence into which the Roman Empire had fallen. The Empire was split into two parts and waves of nomad tribes attacked both. Western Rome fell in 476 AD, while the Eastern Empire with Constantinople as its capital survived until later. Constantinople was taken in 1453 by the turks although it had been surrounded for a long time before that.
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