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From the "Crisis of the Third Century" until the deposition of the last Western Empire in 476, Rome's last two centuries were filled with struggle. |
Decline of the West, 364 - 476 AD
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 The Barbarian Controllers
Historical Thread
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Ricimer, Oadacer, and other Germanic or Gothic leaders were essentially in control of the Western Emperors and their Empire for much of the 5th century. Odoacer finally deposed the last puppet-Emperor, the young Romulus Augustulus, in 476, traditionally taken as the end of the Western Empire.
