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217. Plague and the decline of the Roman Empire
The Rest Is History
Did the Goths Bring Disease From Central Asia?
The plague of scypria may have come from either eastern europe or somewhere beyond, as the goths moved into the empire. But we don't actually ave very good evidence for this. And so i tend to sort of think that the written record is good enough that if the plague was coming with the the migrants in the fourth and fifth century, d would know it. I mean, where did it wered even start? So the plague, bubonic plague, the bacterial disease caused by your seniopestus,. There's just nothing like it.
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