Fall of Rome

Cultural  

1. The collapse of the Roman Empire in the fifth century. Two of the main events of the Fall of Rome were the plundering of the city of Rome by an invading tribe, the Vandals, in the middle years of the century and the abdication of the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, in 476.

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Example Sentences

Ms. Greenfield is convinced that few people learned their lesson in the 2008 crisis, and she has spent a decade worrying about a modern-day version of the Fall of Rome.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2018

But a shortage of phosphorus simply isn’t something that’s going to happen in any time scale less than that which separates us from the Fall of Rome.

From Forbes • Jun. 27, 2013

In fact, they could not help but reenact the Fall of Rome several more times, as it was great fun to keep collapsing and getting up again.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

But now we read the "Fall of Rome," The doleful lay that tells the tale Of all who thus have passed away.

From The Sylvan Cabin A Centenary Ode on the Birth of Lincoln and Other Verse by Jones, Edward Smyth

Period of 1000 years from Fall of Rome, A.D.

From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Litchfield, Frederick