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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 4250320, member: 72790&quot;]Your use of English, Herberto is quite good. If the author sounds vague it is probably because the sources are so vague and his use of what we call circumlocutions comes from a desire not to use coarse or graphic language that might upset readers. You raise a very valid question when you remind us that only the Western portion of the Empire fell and that the Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire continued for another thousand years. Historians in English speaking countries do not spend that much time on Constantinople, either the Byzantine Empire or its people. They seem much happier delving into the Dark Ages in Western Europe and when the Byzantine Empire reemerges in the history books at the time of the Crusades it is usually presented in a negative light. I wish you much good fortune in learning more about the Fall of the (Western) Roman Empire and please write on this site more often.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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