Julius Nepos make Romulus Augustulus’ dad, Orestes, the master of soldiers. Orestes eventually took over the palace of Ravenna and later, in 480 AD, Julius Nepos was assassinated. This meant that Orestes would now rule the western empire, but he decided to give it took his son, Romulus Augustulus. No one knows why he chose his son to rule instead of declaring the throne his. Some believe Orestes thought Romulus Augustulus would be more excepted then him, because Orestes had no roman blood whereas his son, Romulus Augutulus, had at least a little bit of roman blood in him which in his mind was better than no roman blood. Eastern empire still didn’t accept this new ruler. Romulus Augustulus had a few weaknesses. One weakness was that Romulus
