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217. Plague and the decline of the Roman Empire

The Rest Is History

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Is the Roman Empire in a Crisis?

The roman empire is unique as the intersection point between these two incredibly dangerous breeding grounds of disease. The antonine plague was a major disease event that starts in the one sixties. It meets all the the criteria for being an epidemic that is widespread, which is all that a pandemic is. If there had been a pan demic, i would say we would know it. There wasn't a pendemic for centuries that we can detect.

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