The Fall of Rome

History of Everything

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 691 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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The fall of Rome was completed in 476, when the German chieftain Odoacer deposed the last Roman emperor of the West, Romulus Augustulus. The East, always richer and stronger, continued as the Byzantine Empire through the European Middle Ages. But here we will tell the story of the fall of the west and the rise of the east Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:06.4	Hello, this is Matt and McKinley from History Dispatches.
0:12.3	We are the father-son duo bringing you the weird, the wild, the wacky, and the craziest tales from across time.
0:17.8	From the ice bowl to the great heathen army.
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0:28.7	Find out more at History Dispatches.com or wherever you get your podcast app. Hello, everyone, Zachary here, and welcome back to the History of Everything podcast.
1:17.2	If I sound different, I'm just giving you all this a heads up here right now.
1:20.3	If I sound different at all, I do firmly apologize.
1:23.3	I am currently recording this from a hotel room in Sweden.
1:26.3	So if you hear any got to echo, if you hear anything like that, that is the reason why it
1:29.9	actually has that.
1:31.5	Well, that and the fact that I left my expensive microphone at home accidentally, it seems,
1:36.1	which means that I had to go out here on the first day I was here and go and buy a microphone.
1:41.1	So I'm using that.
1:42.4	And it's a karaoke microphone.
1:45.5	So if you hear any differences in quality, I do firmly apologize. James, my editor, I wish you all the luck in editing this,
1:50.4	my friend. Thank you. But speaking of falling and decaying and completely breaking apart,
1:56.4	my friends, today we are going to be telling the story of the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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