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217. Plague and the decline of the Roman Empire
The Rest Is History
Rome and the Importance of Public Health
A city like rome would have been a demographic sink that simply required constant replenishment from migrants. But this is also a common pattern, that the ability to create that density wasn't matched by public health responses o maintain a sanitary and healthy environment. So literally, they're shrinking as they are. The empire is expanding and the population is physically shrinking, people get shorter. And so then you have to ask why. There are different factors that go into achieve stature. Partatlya genetics, but partly its ment. The environmental part is affected by nutrition. A lot of it has to do with how much food, in particular, how much protein you are getting during your sort of
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