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By "fall of Rome", do you mean the events ending in 476 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_th
by tom_mellior 6y ago
By "fall of Rome", do you mean the events ending in 476 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Western_Roman_Empi...) or the events ending in 1453 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople)? Both seem difficult to connect causally to the weather events of 535-536.
- seneca 6y agoThis [1] article posted elsewhere in the thread alludes to the Justinian Plague and this famine hastening to fall of the Eastern Empire. I assume that's what the parent comment is referring to, but I don't see the connection. 1. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/why-536-was-worst-ye...
- AnimalMuppet 6y ago"Hastening the fall" when the fall happened nine hundred years later? I don't buy it.