The Fate of Rome
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What’s it about?
How climate change and pandemic disease—not barbarians or moral decay—brought down the Roman Empire, revealing the fragility of civilization.
You’ll learn
- Rome's rise depended on a stable, warm climate
- The Antonine Plague was a demographic catastrophe
- The Justinianic Plague and Little Ice Age sealed Rome's fate
- Rome's connectivity made it vulnerable to pathogens