How long did it take Rome to fall?

I heard 50 years

>>667814
The western Empire declined quite rapidly after the Vandals took North Africa. Britain declined even faster and had completely collapsed by the middle of the fifth century.

>>667814
Crisis of the third century so about 100 years from the beginning of the Crisis to 476AD

>>667814
depends on which factors are relevant enough to be considered part of the fall of rome

the meme answer refers to the fall of the western roman empire from the death of theodosius, wars with alaric and subsequent sack of rome starting in 395 to the defeat of Syagrius in 487

>>667850
You're off by about 100 years m8.

>>667814
>Rome wasn't burnt in a day, but it couldn't have been more than a week.

>>667814
Shit began to roll down in 509 BC tbqh

It was all done by about 15 minutes after tea

Eternity

From 180 AD when Commodus Ascended the Throne to 476 it was a downhill with occasional bumps upwards, like a stock market chart.

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>>667814
1168 years since the ascension of Diocletian.

>>669126
You are off by 353 years, mate. Good try tho.

>>669126
This! The Roman Empire lasted until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. If you believe in the translatio imperii then the Roman Empire lasted till 1806 and was crushed by Napoleon.

Several years.
It was slow and steady, with a lot of characteristics, from civil wars to missmanagament of economies.
>>667850
Came here to post this.

Let's see, the Second Punic War ended in 201 BC, and Rome was dead by AD 640 after the Muslim conquests took two thirds of its territory. So that's about 840 years when all is said and done.

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It still lives on today
God bless the Finnish empire

>>667888
which theodosius

>>669111
This. It was all downhill after Commodus with only a few emperors being able to halt that descent for short periods of time.

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