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875: Jonathan Kennedy | How Pathogens Have Shaped Our World
The Jordan Harbinger Show
The Roman Empire and the Antonine Plague
It's the equivalent of having a state in the United States that speaks whatever Apache Native American language entirely. And it's because they just somehow managed to not get overtaken by the Neolithic farmers and who had wagons. There's a massive historical advantages to being a really big pain in the ass to either invade conquer or travel through right. If you live on the edge of something and you're really high up or really far down it's like I'm not going all the way up there just to oppress people. You know if you go to Rome you can still see evidence of the baths and the aqueducts that brought kind of this enormous amount of fresh water flowing into the city
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