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31: Interview: Historian Kyle Harper on Disease, Climate and the Fall of the Roman Empire
The Fall of Rome Podcast
Movement and Vulnerability in the Roman Empire
This chapter explores how the movement of goods and people in the Roman Empire facilitated the spread of disease and made the empire vulnerable to climatic shifts. It discusses the strength and vulnerability of the empire's complex trade and commerce system and how external shocks led to its collapse.
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