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The Roman World Around A.D. 400

The year A.D.

400 is, in historical hindsight, one of the more meaningful dates in the long story of Late Antiquity — not because any single dramatic event occurred precisely then, but because it falls near the midpoint of several decades of cascading political and military crises that would ultimately end with the effective collapse of Roman power in the western provinces.

The crisis had been building for years before A.D.