Because Rome started becoming poor and kept on being attacked
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The Byzantine Empire lasted for a millennium.
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Constantine I founded the Byzantine Empire, or the Eastern Roman Empire, on the shores on the Bosporus, in the city of Byzantium, which He renamed Constantinople after himself, in the year of 327 AD .
After the fall of the western Roman Empire the eastern part continued to exist for nearly 1,000 years. Historians use the term Byzantine Empire the indicate the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part.
It was probably Rome, the capital of Italy now. By Hanna
The collapse wouldn't have happened if the Roman Empire wasn't attacked by all sides.