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September 4, 476 – The Fall of the Roman Empire

The rest of the Mediterranean, not even Rome itself, expected that a disorderly little town on the edge of the Tiber would rise to be western history’s most influential civilization. Aside from a legacy of greatness, Rome left behind a tragic warning: if the flames of

ego, greed, and ambition are not tempered in one’s quest for glory, they will consume oneself as gluttonously as they hunger to consume the world. Armed with a lethal blade of two ends, Rome fell upon his own sword.