HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Constantine
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Caesar Augustus
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Marcus Aurelius
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Romulus Augustus
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Detailed explanation-1: -Romulus Augustus, the last Western Roman Emperor, surrenders the crown to Odoacer (1880 illustration). The overthrow of Romulus Augustus, considered to have been the final Western Roman Emperor.
Detailed explanation-2: -Odoacer’s forces captured and executed Orestes on August 28, 476. Romulus, however, was spared because of his youth; Odoacer gave him a pension and sent him to live with his relatives in Campania, a region of southern Italy. His subsequent fate is unknown.
Detailed explanation-3: -Alaric leads the Visigoths in their sack of Rome in 410. The Visigoths were a Germanic people who lived throughout Eastern Europe. On August 27, 410, Visigoths from Eastern Europe ended a three-day sack of the city of Rome, which is now the capital of Italy.
Detailed explanation-4: -Theodoric invaded Italy in 489 and by August 490 had captured almost the entire peninsula, forcing Odoacer to take refuge in Ravenna. The city surrendered on March 5, 493; Theodoric invited Odoacer to a banquet and there killed him.