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Dan Snow's History Hit · June 18, 2026 · 53m 22s

Why Did The Roman Empire Collapse?

In the final episode of the series, Dan Snow and Professor Peter Heather discuss the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. They explore why the empire, at its economic peak, fell apart, tracing the chaos of the third-century crisis through to the deposition of the last Western emperor, and why the Eastern half survived.

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