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217. Plague and the decline of the Roman Empire
The Rest Is History
The Justinian Pandemic in Italy
There's only one source for the justinian plague in italy, a. And so maybe that's a kind of measure of how bad a pandemic is tat there just aren't people round to sit and write histories any more,. I really feel that's a big explanation for what happens. In the middle of the two fifties, two sixties, it's a multi facitic crisis. The monetary system falls apart. Nobody knows who the rightful emperor is. There are rivals in the in the east. It may be that the pendemic of infectious disease in the third century could be an effect, rather than a cause, of the crisis. That would sink human nutrition and
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