Answer:
1. Do historians agree or disagree about when Rome fell?
Some historians claim that Rome fell when Romulus Augustulus, the last Western Roman Emperor, was deposed, in 476 AD. Other historians claim that the Empire only fell in 1453, when Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire (also known as the Byzantine Empire) fell to the turks.
2. Which 5th century Roman emperor is traditionally considered to be the last before the fall of Rome?
Romulus Augustulus, who was deposed in 476 AD by Odoacer. He was very young and had ruled for less than a year. After being deposed, he was sent to live in the Italian countryside with a pension.
3. What term did the Romans use to describe the various tribes that lived outside of Rome and finally overthrew it?
Rome referred to outside peoples as "barbarians". Celtic tribes from the British Isles, Germanic peoples from Scandinavia, and Slavic peoples from the Eurusian steppes where all considered barbarians according to the Romans.
4. What is another term for Eastern Rome? In what year did the capital move there from Rome?
Constantinople was made the Roman Empire capital in 330 AD, by emperor Constantine. The other term for Eastern Rome is the Byzantine Empire.
5. Which important leader of Eastern Rome had a city named after him?
Emperor Constantine, who was one of the most important Emperors in the history of the Roman Empire, not only because he had the city named after him, and made it the capital of the Empire, but also because he was the Emperor who made Christianity the official religion of the Empire.
