Martin Luther and Gutenberg played a key role in the * attempts made to reclaim the Holy Land
fall of the Ottoman Empire
end of religious unity in Europe
establishment of parliamentary democracy in Britain

Ongoing civil wars western roman empire finally collapsed476 c.e. romulus, the last of theroman  emperors in  the west, was overthrown by the germanic leader odoacer, who became the first barbarian to rule in rome. the order that the  roman empire  had brought towestern  europe for 1000 years was no more.