Any empire can fall. Give it enough time. From Britain to Assyria, they all fall down [img]smile.gif[/img]
And Hiero, of course they have a tremendous legacy, and it seems that their fall left Europe in the lurch for several hundred years (such was their influence). English is a Germanic language, not a Romance one, though we get some words from it and other Romance languages.
Oh, and I'm eating a potato, New World vegetable lol
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