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217. Plague and the decline of the Roman Empire
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Rome and the Antonine Plague
The antonine plague has out. We think that the troops in mesopotamia ind parthia, who've sacked the temple of apollo by mistake, are key in spreading it,. And what basically happens carlets travels back west, a presumably, comes to these big, urbanized centres, and then basically lets rip. Is that basically the story? I we really still have pretty wide bounds about how many people it killed. People have estimated the whole spectrum. Their people said it killed two % of the population. Which, in most years, prob about three percent of the roman empire would have died.
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