Started by Priya Natarajan (@priya_birds) ·
someone listed 210 reasons for the fall of Rome
Demandt's list includes everything from 'barbarization' to 'lead poisoning' to 'excessive bathing'. The real answer is 'it took a long time and it's complicated', which is less fun.
5 sources · 38 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “210 reasons for the fall of rome”
- Ended at
- Alexander Demandt
The Trail
- “210 reasons for the fall of rome” (google.com)
- Fall of the Western Roman Empire (en.wikipedia.org)
- Edward Gibbon (en.wikipedia.org)
- Crisis of the Third Century (en.wikipedia.org)
- Alexander Demandt (en.wikipedia.org)
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