I've posted this on HN before: Every time someone tries to shoe-horn the Fall of Rome into contemporary history it's good to post Demandt's "210 Reasons for th

I've posted this on HN before: Every time someone tries to shoe-horn the Fall of Rome into contemporary history it's good to post Demandt's "210 Reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire" [1]. You can nicely see which ideologies have tried to fit Rome into their own crusade. [1] http://www.utexas.edu/courses/rome/210reasons.html http://www.utexas.edu/courses/rome/210reasons.html