The Eastern Empire managed to divert the Visigoths into Italy, thus shoving the problem onto the Western Empire, which responded to this threat by pulling troops from the Rhine frontier. This triggered a pattern of events much like the cycle of anarchy in the third century C.E., only this time, no Aurelian or Diocletian emerged to save the Empire.
Because latitude runs from the equator to one or the other of the poles, 90 degrees. That's one-fourth of a full circle around the globe. Longitude starts at Greenwich, Englanâ¦d and runs, to the west or to the east, to the International Date Line (in the Pacific Ocean), 180 degrees.
Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: At approximately latitude 42 north. You can check the latitudes of those four cities in Google Maps or Google Earth. The Babylonians defined the degree as being the right ascension of the sun and believed it was 360 days in the year, hence 360 degrees in a circle.