Rome ended around 500. "ended with the fall of Constantinople in 1453" Then you can claim it never ended. "Up until about one century ago, the Roman Empire w

Rome ended around 500. "ended with the fall of Constantinople in 1453" Then you can claim it never ended. "Up until about one century ago, the Roman Empire was popular enough that the rulers of Russia still used the title of “Czars” derived from the name of the first Roman Emperor and they called Moscow “The Third Rome,” with the first two being Rome and Constantinople." (don't underestimte this claim for Russians self identity!) This graph gives a pretty good description: https://davidgalbraith.org/trivia/graph-of-the-population-of-rome-through-history/2189/ https://davidgalbraith.org/trivia/graph-of-the-population-of... Rome had a population of around 1MM (some claim 3MM) and ralaitvly quick declined to 0.1MM. NYC has 8MM Inhabitants. Imagine it would collapse quickly to 0.8 MM with many houses not occupied, broken and the infrastructure rotten. Non functioning cars on the street and if you were to ask one what these cars are they would tell you: No idea. Some kind of horse carriage but much to heavy, we don't use it anymore, because they lost most of their knowledge in technology.