Question

9. When do historians date the fall of Rome?

a. when Augustulus took power,
b. when Odoacer was killed
c. when Theodoric took control
d. when Odoacer took control

Answer 1

A is your answer.

Step-by-step explanation:

Gibbon took September 4, 476 as a convenient marker for the final dissolution of the Western Roman Empire, when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed by Odoacer, a Germanic chieftain. Some modern historians question the significance of the year 476 for its end.