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217. Plague and the decline of the Roman Empire
The Rest Is History
Is There Cause and Effect?
Is it coincidence that all these crises are reaching the boil at the same time as this terrible plague is sweeping the mediterranean, or is there a kind of degree of cause and effect there? Because human health is fragile, and if you start to see a breakdown of systems of food provisioning, for instance. There's not, ah, two, three years of food stored up that you can eat. And so if you do have a, all of a sudden you have invasion, an imperial civil war, that means that the harvests don't come in and the food shipments can't make it,. then you have people that are hungry.
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