[Cronos]

Actually speaking -- Rome never really fell. It didn't disapper off the face of the earth like Assyria, Babylonia, Pharoanic Egypt etc. It's language lives on in France, Spain, Portugal, Latin America, Romania and into English speaking countries as well, it's culture is prevalent over all of the Americas and Europe and in India. It's later religion is Roman Catholicism AND Eastern Orthodoxy and that's still alive. It survived as a political entity until 1492 -- remember that the Emperors in COnstantinople wouldn't have known what you were talking about if you called them Emperors of Byzantium -- they were Emperors of Rome.

No, Rome never fell.

[Casloy]

No, Rome never fell.

You make an excellent point. Before WWII the sun never set on the British Isles. They had colonies all over the world, hence the name, the British Empire. Now they are simply Britain. If we are going to claim that Rome fell, then it stands to reason we must claim that Britain fell.