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that is the question.
For over a century, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , by Edward Gibbon was the definitive account of the Roman Empire. Eventually, historians began to challenge some of Gibbon's analysis. Were the fourth and fifth centuries really a descent into the Dark Ages?
