THE FALL OF ROME: 200 YEARS OF COLLAPSE
Episode 152 | Human History — Civilizations & Empires
In this History episode we focus on the fall of the Western Roman Empire — not as the single event of 476 AD but as a 200-year process of hollowing out that historians have proposed over 210 different explanations for, covering the military, economic, and demographic factors that eroded Roman capacity and why the Eastern Empire survived as Byzantium for another thousand years while the West collapsed.
The date textbooks give for the fall of Rome is 476 AD. The interesting question is why it had been dying for 200 years before that…
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