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Turning point · The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476
476: the end in the West
4 Sep 476 — Odoacer deposes the boy-emperor Romulus Augustulus and sends the imperial regalia to Constantinople: the West needs no emperor of its own. Almost nobody notices.
This is one scene of Chapter 11 — The Fall of the West in The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476.
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