Romulus Augustulus, was the last Roman emperor. He declined the emperor position to the germanic general Odoacer. This also comes to conclusion that the Byzantine Empire was to be formed after the Turkish Persians, the Sassanid, took control of Constantinople and declared those lands part of their own. These elements provoked the fall of the once great empire and transformed in to two different entities that one took the route of the middle ages and the other the Byzantine.