Decline and fall

We often say that the Roman empire fell in 476: but almost certainly no-one who was alive in 476 thought that the empire had fallen, or probably that it ever would fall. If there are historians in 2400, what date will they give for the moment when America fell? Perhaps the 20th of January, 2017, or the 6th of January, 2021? Or perhaps the 15th of August, 2021?


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