Fim da Roma antiga

«The sack of the city sent a thrill of horror round the Roman world, which has been echoed ever since: ‘In one city,’ St Jerome wrote, ‘the whole world perished.’ By the end of the fifth century the Roman Empire in the west was no more.»

The Visigoths sack Rome | History Today

At its height the Roman Empire stretched from Britain and the Atlantic to North Africa and Mesopotamia.

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