What can we learn from the fall of Rome?
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John Rappley and Peter Heather talk about their new book, Why Empires Fall. They argue that long-lived imperial systems have a lifecycle to them. The distribution of economic strength has been changed by the way they operate. In the Roman case, we make the argument that it led to the dismantling of the unraveling of the Roman imperial system. And in the West, we're not at the end of that process, but you can certainly see the sort of more than the beginnings.
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