Did Immigration Really Cause the Fall of Rome?
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
Mark humphreys and i get into it, the fall of rome. How shall we think about the fifth century in the western empire? Does it collapse in a kind of dramatic way like when gibbon was wright about it? Or do you think of it as a more organic, evolving political and cultural structure that is always undergoing some element of change,. Some people see it as falling from a point where culturally, its reached a great height, and then they see it as collapsing into something where culture arently goes into retreat. We get into a sort of dark age. And part of the problem with that view is that it doesn't account for the fact that the empire by
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