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I thought it might be useful to have a thread that tries to clear up some popular misconception about pre-modern civilisations. People are free to add nuggets of information to this thread, and hopefully this will clear up some misunderstanding people might get from pop history books/historical myths that have been perpetuated since the enlightenment.
1. The Roman Empire did not fell in 476. It's the end of an independent Emperor in the Western half of the empire, but control of the western provinces technically went back to the Emperor in Constantinople. Various barbarian kings continues to acknowledge the Emperor in Constantinople as their superior in some sense or another.