This video is a preview for the upcoming project "The Holy Roman Empire: Every Year," expected to be completed around March-May 2024. Timeline: 0:00 Late Frankish Empire 1:38 Holy Roman Empire / ...

What would the modern world look like if Constantinople never fell in 1453? Imagine a Mediterranean that remained a Roman lake. No Ottoman conquest. No sack of 1204. A powerful Eastern Roman Empire ...

The Western Roman Empire famously ended in A.D. 476 when its last emperor abdicated the throne. But the city of Rome continued on. So what happened to the "Eternal City" after it was no longer the ...

The "Fall of Rome" usually refers to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century A.D. But historians don't agree about the exact date, nor about its causes. And some historians argue ...