Grace Usleman’s Reviews > The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire > Status Update

Right so basically we found out (only within the last two decades or so) that the majority of the reason Rome fell was because of randomly low sun activity = ice age = more moderate and warm climate = prime breeding grounds for disease which could only spread because of mass migration and a shift to agriculture/farming domination in society

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“The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and, as soon as time or accident had removed the artificial supports, the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight.”