Why do you think the Western Roman Empire fell and the Byzantine Empire did not?
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Even before the final division of the empire, the capital had been moved to the east. Constantinople quickly became a metropolis and a major trade node in the Mediterranean. The position of the city along with the great walls made it a real stronghold, safe from the invaders.
The whole eastern part of the empire was rich as well. Trade was flourishing in the east Mediterranean since the ancient years and served as a trade route to further east as well. It only got busier and more populated with the years.
On the other hand, the West was in a state of constant decline. With the invasions of the Germanic tribes, Rome and the surrounding areas were gradually abandoned and depopulated.
It is true though that under the reign of Justinian I, there were attempts to add again the western lands to the empire. For various reasons though those attempts were stalled for centuries - disease breakouts, threats from the east and north etc. It’s important to note that the capital of the Western Empire (and later of the Ostrogothic Kingdom) was Ravenna, not Rome. Rome kept sliding out of the reach of the Emperor and into the hands of the Pope as well. Finally it was abandoned.
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The fall of the Western Roman Empire (also called the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Rome) was the process of decline in the Western Roman Empire in which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor polities. The Roman Empire lost the strengths that had allowed it to exercise effective control over its Western provinces; modern historians posit factors including the effectiveness and numbers of the army, the health and numbers of the Roman population, the strength of the economy, the competence of the Emperors, the internal struggles for power, the religious changes of the period, and the efficiency of the civil administration. Increasing pressure from invading barbarians outside Roman culture also contributed greatly to the collapse. The reasons for the collapse are major subjects of the historiography of the ancient world and they inform much modern discourse on state failure.
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