He might want to reread the history (any history) on the Roman Empire, since he’s so fact challenged.

In the latter days of the Roman Empire? Gee, they were busy with bread and circuses in the Year of the Four Emperors and that was in the midst of the 12 Caesars that Suetonius wrote about (which happens to be not long after the formation of the Empire after the fall of the Roman Republic). That happened to precede some of the best emperors in Roman history including Vespasian, who founded the Flavian Dynasty. It included Diocletian, Justinian and Constantine.

The Roman Empire in the West ended after 476, the Eastern Empire persisted another 1,000 years.