The actual benefit of learning history - actual history, not narratives cherry-picked to inspire, lionise, or condemn - is to learn humility and help you navigate the world, understand why it is the way it is, and how you and everything around you are the products of what came before you, that the world used to be different, and will be different again. To paraphrase something someone's mother might have said, people don't just fall out of a coconut tree.
Human lifetimes are short and the world is old, and infinitely, maddeningly complex. You can easily get lost, feel lost in it. History provides a map. The more history you learn, the more of the map is revealed. Not every location on the map is going to be relevant to you personally, but everything contributes to filling out the bigger picture.
I believe the Fall of Rome is very relevant, if only because so many other people seem to be invested in it, that learning about and understanding it (and the narratives surrounding it, like fog) seems to be important to me to understand the world around me. However it's also perfectly understandable to say that it's not relevant to you. Maybe it doesn't have to be on your map. Then again, sometimes you don't know which map you need.
Human lifetimes are short and the world is old, and infinitely, maddeningly complex. You can easily get lost, feel lost in it. History provides a map. The more history you learn, the more of the map is revealed. Not every location on the map is going to be relevant to you personally, but everything contributes to filling out the bigger picture.
I believe the Fall of Rome is very relevant, if only because so many other people seem to be invested in it, that learning about and understanding it (and the narratives surrounding it, like fog) seems to be important to me to understand the world around me. However it's also perfectly understandable to say that it's not relevant to you. Maybe it doesn't have to be on your map. Then again, sometimes you don't know which map you need.