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875: Jonathan Kennedy | How Pathogens Have Shaped Our World
The Jordan Harbinger Show
The Disgusting History of the Roman Empire
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The Romans had these sponges on sticks that seem to be shared. The sewers weren't great either so apparently you had kind of regular explosions would kind of thrust fire and human waste out of the fire. So into the air for everyone to enjoy that's really really really gross. That's even worse I thought the shared bath water thing was gross that is next level disgusting. Wow so shockingly they had plagues in the Roman Empire. Can we talk about that because you mentioned coin production is kind of almost a parameter of how well the population was doing? We can look at eyewitness accounts to understand what was going on.
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