Practice question · Estimate
A Roman emperor reigned in Constantinople from the deposition of the last western emperor in 476 until the city fell. Estimate how many years that is.
Estimate on a scale from 600 years (600) to 1200 years (1200).
Hints
- Subtract 476 from the year the city fell.
- 1453 minus 476.
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977 (answers within ±30 count)
Why
977 years. The figure is worth holding because of what it does to the phrase "the fall of Rome": on the eastern reckoning the Roman empire outlasted its supposed end by almost a millennium, and ended in a year most western surveys treat as the start of the modern period.
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