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I read once a while ago (can't remember where) that Rome was completely and entirely trashed by the Gothic Wars, to the point where, besides the Pope, there was basically no reason for its continued existence.

Is it possible, if the Papacy ends for some reason (death, angering the Byzantine Emperor, angering the Gothic rulers) for Rome to become just a group of ruins, like Babylon? Or, like Carthage, would a "new" Rome be built a few miles away from the old?

Thoughts on the causes and the effects of this coming to pass?
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