In segment 14d: Fall of the Western Empire, the Roman Empire, the Western Roman Empire definitely falls, but when?

14章 第四部分 西罗马帝国的灭亡，西罗马帝国无疑灭亡坍塌了，但是具体是什么时间呢?

The Eastern Roman Empire came to reinforce the Western Empire; in 432, their  combined forces suffered a substantial defeat.

东罗马帝国来加强西罗马帝国； 432 年，他们的联合部队遭受了重大失败。

At last, in 410, Alaric sacked Rome, and the slave-ridden, agricultural, uncommercial Western Empire — the poorer and less Christianized half — went to pieces.

最终，在 410 年，阿拉里克洗劫了罗马，奴隶制、农业化、非商业化的西方帝国——较贫穷、基督教化程度较低的一半——分崩离析。

These included Constantinople's choice location, its closeness to trade routes, a more highly urbanized society and most importantly the knack of diverting Barbarian invasions away from them and towards the Western Empire.

例如，君士坦丁堡的地理位置接近东西贸易要道，社会高度城市化，更重要的是，他们能够避开蛮族入侵，并且把蛮族引向入侵西罗马帝国。

Given the chaos ensuing after the Lombard invasion of Italy 568 AD is my choice of logical ending date for the Western Empire and if you don't like that argue with me.

考虑到伦巴第人在568年入侵意大利后所引起的混乱局面，我认为西罗马灭亡的时间应该从那时开始算起，有不同意见的人可以和我探讨。

The fall of the western empire is the third great revolution in the affairs of mankind, of which ancient history has preserved any distinct or circumstantial account.

西方帝国的没落是人类事务中的第三次大革命，古代历史对此有任何明确或间接的记载。

The influential historian Edward Gibbon, a favorite of our nation's founders, believed that the Western Empire fell in 476 AD with the departure of Romulus Augustus and the accession of King Odovacar of Italy.

颇具影响力的历史学家我国最受欢迎的缔造者爱德华·吉本，认为西罗马是在476年奥古斯都路斯退位，意大利国王奥多亚克登基后灭亡的 。

In 395 the Roman Empire was divided in two – a Western Empire with Rome as its center, and an Eastern Empire with the new city of Constantinople as its capital.

395 年，罗马帝国一分为二——以罗马为中心的西帝国和以新城君士坦丁堡为首都的东帝国。