Comparing The Fall Of Rome And America

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The Western Roman empire fell in 476 C.E.. The Roman Empire lasted nearly 500 years. Before the fall of the Western Empire, Constantine split the Roman Empire into two parts, west and east. He moved the government and the capital to Byzantine (later renamed Constantinople). While ancient Rome and modern day America are very different in some ways, they are similar in other ways. The fall of the Roman Empire has some things that sound similar to what is going on in America right now, however America will not fall the same way that the Roman Empire did. Rome and America are separated by almost a 2000 year gap, but we have taken some of their traits and added them to our own. While we do not necessarily have slave labor, we have something