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The empire never ended

• acjohnson55 5y ago
  There's some truth to that, but at the same time it's undeniable that there was a dramatic decrease in political organization, stability, and economic complexity in the Western Empire. Only for brief periods would there be anything like imperial control of Western Europe, but never with the inclusion of Britain and Spain again, and never with the economic engine of Rome. The multi-centric world of Western and Central Europe didn't come close to matching the Roman economy until the Renaissance, and wouldn't surpass it in engineering achievement until the Enlightenment.