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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2434984, member: 76194&quot;]What happened in 476 CE was that King Odoacer refused to adopt the title and office of Emperor, as other Barbarians had done in the past. However, many of the bureaucratic structures and even the Senate continued to some extent into the 6th and 7th centuries. It&#039;s not like 476 CE came and all of the sudden the Dark Ages are here and everyone is illiterate, living in huts, and feudalism is everywhere. Even some of the towns and cities continued, although diminished, for centuries to come...and some were never&nbsp; abandoned despite the breakdown in infrastructure and commerce over the centuries.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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