The fall of the Western Roman Empire was not a single event, but a centuries-long decline. The first major shock came in the Teutoburg Forest, where Rome suffered one of the greatest defeats in its history. Four centuries later came the sack of Rome by the Visigoths, the hard-fought victory over Attila at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, and another devastating sack of the city by the Vandals. Finally, in AD 476, the deposition of the young emperor Romulus Augustulus marked the end of the Western Roman Empire. This campaign shows how an empire that once dominated the known world gradually collapsed under the weight of external invasions and internal weakness.
