"IT" meaning Rome, wasn't over until the early 1400s when Constantinople fell to the Turks and the noble classes fled.
There used to be this theory that vast numbers of barbarians overran the place. Subsequent archaeological research revealed "IT" continued to putt along until 535 ~ that's the year even China turned to poop.
254 posted on 09/23/2011 7:09:40 PM PDT by muawiyah