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30: Tides of History: Natural Disasters and the End of the Roman Empire

The Fall of Rome Podcast

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Introduction

The chapter explores how disasters such as the bubonic plague, cooling climate, failed harvests, and a war between Romans and Ostrogoths marked the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval.

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