The Roman Empire and Climate Change

The roman empire has extand inan modern rumania as well as all the way through to the fringes of e black sea, caspian sea. This is an extraordinarily massive empire in which not only the military, but a common set of partly values and partly institutions are holding it together. Climate change played a role - we can see cyclical regional climate change playing a role. A tribe that became known as the huns suffered a mega drought of such severity that it hadn't been seen for hundreds or thousands of years. The Huns were forced to from their ancestral tribal homes and start looking for territory further to the west. As the huns moved, they displaced other