Alaric is most famous for his sack of Rome in 410, which marked a decisive event in the decline of the Roman Empire.

Ultimately, it established the Rhine as the boundary of the Roman Empire for the next four hundred years, until the decline of the Roman influence in the West.

By the 5th century AD, Rome was in decline and the Roman predecessor town of Alicante, known as Lucentum ( Latin ), was more or less under the control of the Visigothic warlord Theudimer.

This demand, however, was coupled with a promise of thorough reform in the Roman hierarchy, and openly admitted the partial guilt of the Vatican in the decline of the Church.

After the decline of the Roman Empire, a Germanic tribe known as the Franks took control of Gaul by defeating competing tribes.

Because Galen's works were not translated into Latin in the ancient period, and because of the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, the study of Galen, along with the Greek medical tradition as a whole, went into decline in Western Europe during the Early Middle Ages, when very few Latin scholars could read Greek.

The Seleucid kingdom continued to decline and its remaining provinces were annexed by the Roman Republic in 64 BC as Iudaea Province.

After the decline of the Roman Empire, Germanic tribes invaded the former empire.

Evidence has, however, been outlined that suggests that the principal decline in Roman Britain ’ s continental trade may have occurred in the late 2nd century AD, from c. 165 AD onwards.

The collection spans from the Cycladic period to the decline of the Roman Empire.

With the rise of the Roman Empire and the decline of the Seleucids, the area was conquered by the Roman Empire in 63 BC.

The Roman Empire reached its greatest territorial extent during the 2nd century AD, with the following two centuries witnessing the slow decline of Roman control over its outlying territories.

But for much of the 4th century, Roman society had reached a new, stable form that differed from the earlier classical period in a number of significant ways-a widening gulf between the rich and poor as well as a decline in the vitality of the smaller towns.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the onset of the Early Middle Ages, the Greek tradition of medicine went into decline in Western Europe, although it continued uninterrupted in the Eastern Roman ( Byzantine ) Empire.

As in the rest of Germany, the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches have experienced a continuous, slow decline in their memberships.

Trade declined with the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, and agricultural estates were mostly self-sufficient.

The Eastern Church continued to decline with the Eastern Roman ( Byzantine ) Empire, undercutting Constantinople's claim to equality with Rome.

Following the decline of the central Parthian authority after clashes with the Roman Empire, a local Parthian leader, Gondophares established the Indo-Parthian Kingdom in the 1st century CE.

Malaria may have contributed to the decline of the Roman Empire.

During the later years of the Roman Empire, Pisa did not decline as much as the other cities of Italy, probably thanks to the complexity of its river system and its consequent ease of defence.

Dissatisfaction with Company rule led to the Indian Rebellion of 1857, after which the British provinces of India were directly administered by the British Crown and witnessed a period of both rapid development of infrastructure and economic decline.

In the 1980s and 1990s, much of the original 1950s roadside infrastructure on now-bypassed US Highways had fallen into decline and was being razed for development.

Askin accused the state government of allowing the transport infrastructure of the state to decline and promised to build the Newcastle freeway without a toll, to construct the Eastern Suburbs Railway and to plan for a second crossing of Sydney Harbour.

Due to the out-of-date infrastructure, the share of the railway freight transport has been in decline in Slovenia despite growing slightly in absolute terms.

The decline of pearling resulted in a very difficult era, with little opportunity to build any infrastructure.

BW welcomed the announcement with the chairman Tony Hales stating the plan would preserve the canals and their associated infrastructure, and " safeguard against a return to the decline and dereliction which they faced in the last century " while also being able to " unlock the enormous public support that there is for them.

The Five-Year Modernization Plan Perry introduced in March 1996 reflected his basic assumptions that the Defense budget would not decline in FY 1997 and would grow thereafter ; that DoD would realize significant savings from infrastructure cuts, most importantly base closings ; and that other savings would come by contracting out many support activities and reforming the defense acquisition system.

Noting the rapid deterioration of the public infrastructure, they predict a possible long-term decline, due not to a lack of resources, but an inability to use existing resources efficiently or effectively.

ERA developed the surface infrastructure and the decline down to the ore-body to allow for further definition of the resource.

Seattle has on several occasions been sent into severe decline, but has typically used those periods to successfully rebuild infrastructure.

The decline of industry, deterioration of rail and maritime infrastructure, and toxic waste, eventually made the area obsolete.

The decline stopped with improved transport infrastructure, including the 1948 Postauto route to Bern.

Additionally, royalty trusts in the United States and Canada usually involve oil and gas fields or mines which are at or past their production peak, and will gradually decline in output as well as revenue ; however, the infrastructure to develop them has already been built, so that an investor can expect a reasonably steady income stream.

By the mid-1960s, this Termination philosophy was in decline as a failed policy and the Congress began to include Indian tribes in legislation designed to rebuild the social infrastructure of the Nation and provide economic opportunities for economically depressed areas.

Studies such as the Urban Task Force ( DETR 1999 ), the Urban White Paper ( DETR 2000 ), and a study of Scottish cities ( 2003 ) posit that areas suffering industrial decline — high unemployment, poverty, and a decaying physical environment ( sometimes including contaminated land and obsolete infrastructure )— prove " highly resistant to improvement ".

Despite the fact that Guizhou received 53. 3 billion yuan in infrastructure construction in 2001 alone, more than the total amount given by the Ninth Five-Year Plan ( 1995-2002 ), its foreign capital declined from US $ 40. 9 million in 1999 to $ 29. 29 million in 2001, an astonishing 31 % decline, reaching its lowest point since 1997.

Though it suffered some decline, most Roman law and much physical infrastructure such as roads, bridges, aqueducts and irrigation systems, was maintained to varying degrees unlike the complete disintegration that occurred in most other former parts of the western empire.

No longer an active port, Rufisque has experienced steep decline of industrial activities and is certainly the most neglected of Senegal's four historic " communes ", with no tourism sector and a chronic lack of investment in public infrastructure

During this time airline deregulation was put in place, and combined with the airport's aging facilities and the phasing out of turbo prop aircraft in favor of jet aircraft by the airlines, the airport's outdated infrastructure and deteriorating condition resulted in a decline of service to the airport.

The competence between papers for having more cartoons than the rest from the mid-1920s, the growth of large-scale newspaper advertising during most of the thirties, paper rationing during World War II, the decline on news readership ( as television newscasts began to be more common ) and inflation ( which has caused higher printing costs ) beginning during the fifties and sixties made Sunday strips being published on smaller and more diverse formats.

However, after the club's relegation little investment was made in The Valley as it fell into decline.

These specific studies have shown that episodic memory performance does in fact decline with age and have made known that older adults produce vivid rates of forgetting when two items are combined and not encoded.

Throughout its long history, Fuerteventura has suffered from a population decline due to the economic situation and the climate, which have made it into a desert island.

This specialism likely aided the decline in hellbender populations, as collecting was made easier by being able to easily spot their specific habitat selection.

But the exploitation soon made the profits decline, and the hunting ended.

No major purchases of equipment had been made in recent years largely due to the decline of the economy and military sanctions experienced throughout the 1990s.

Microliths were also used from the Neolithic on arrows, although a decline in this use coincided with the appearance of bifacial or " leafed " arrowheads that became widespread in the Calcolithic period, or Copper Age ( that is, stone arrowheads were increasingly made by a different technique during this later period ).

In the case of Montalcino, gradual economic decline has recently been reversed by economic growth due to the increasing popularity of the town's famous wine Brunello di Montalcino, made from the sangiovese grosso grapes grown within the comune.

The situation is made worse by the decrease in services such as schools, stores, and cultural opportunities that accompany the decline in population, and the increasing age of the remaining population further stresses the social service system of rural areas.

As the fashion moved to a more modern look and technology made lace an easy and inexpensive commodity to purchase, hand-made lace began to decline.

Overlaps between the two groups were resolved, but a decline in the demand for minerals from the seabed made the seabed regime significantly less relevant.

Venice's long decline started in the 15th century, when it first made an unsuccessful attempt to hold Thessalonica against the Ottomans ( 1423 – 1430 ).

( Roosevelt actually made the offer of a seat on the Court on several different occasions, being met with a decline every time.

The DTS digital sound-on-disc system was adapted for use with 70 mm film, thus saving the significant costs of magnetic striping, but this has not been enough to stop the decline, and 70 mm prints are now very rarely made.

The negative reactions to this from Zeeland and the city of Amsterdam, where the stock market collapsed, made William ultimately decide to decline these honours ; he was instead appointed stadtholder of Gelderland and Overijssel.

The link between political decline and cultural debasement ( as they saw it ) was also made by his fellow Peripatetic and friend Aristoxenus.

While arcade games were still relatively popular during the 1990s, this type of media saw a continuous decline in popularity in the Western world when video game consoles made the transition from 2D to 3D.

In the West, with the decline of imperial power from the 4th century onwards in the face of the barbarian invasions, sometimes Christian bishops of cities took the place of the Roman commander, made secular decisions for the city and led their own troops when necessary.

In 1996 Patrice Leconte made Ridicule which depicted a court already at odds with its nobles and in terminal decline.

From decades of research he made estimates for the pre-contact population and the history of demographic decline during the Spanish and post-Spanish periods.

Taos is predominantly made up of Democrats ; In 2008, approximately 74 % of registered Taos County voters were Democrats, 13 % Republicans and about 13 % were alternate parties or decline to affiliate with a party.

At the time the Spanish made their first forays inland from the shores of the Gulf of Mexico, many political centers of the Mississippians were already in decline, or abandoned.