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METROPOLITAN CITY OF ROME, LAZIO, AUG 9 – Epidemics like the Antonine plague killed up to 10 million people and climatic shifts stressed agriculture, while ongoing conflicts weakened the Western Roman Empire before its fall in 476 A.D.
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The Roman Empire, explained in 39 minute
What did it really mean to live in Ancient Rome? Not as an emperor, but as an ordinary person navigating daily life? Classicist Mary Beard says that the truth would surprise us, challenging our myths about the empire. Ancient Rome emerges as a complex, uneven, often uncomfortable prototype of globalization. Roads were designed for conquest more than convenience. Sex, trade, and culture operated under systems of inequality. And yet, across the An…
Is this the real reason the Roman Empire collapsed?
Throughout antiquity, kingdoms and nations rose and fell but Rome stood strong—until its steep decline. The fall of this ancient superpower is so complex that historians are still debating it today, but a new theory has emerged in recent years.
For centuries, the collapse of the Roman Empire has been one of the great enigmas of history. The idea that such a powerful civilization disappeared almost suddenly fascinates and disconcerts historians and curious. In the last 48 hours, several recent studies have revived the discussion, disassembled classical theories and provided unexpected data about the end of this cultural giant. The fall of the empire was not a simple collapse. It was a l…
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