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Yup, that and the 209 other reasons is why the western Roman Empire fell.
by thom 2y ago
Yup, that and the 209 other reasons is why the western Roman Empire fell.
- throwup238 2y agoEveryone knows it was caused by a massive decrease in the quality of Roman garum. After their supplies of the good stuff ran out, they just didn’t have enough umami to keep the empire united. Once Constantinople developed their own garos, they had no reason to stay together with the west.
- QuercusMax 2y agoI thought it was the extinction of the sylphium plant that really sealed their fate.
- gumby 2y agoIt's always the simple explanations like these that survive Occam's razor.
- psunavy03 2y agoThe heck with bread and circuses. Fish sauce for all my friends!
- mjhay 2y agoI remember a quote saying something to the effect of "the Roman Empire wasn't murdered, it killed itself on accident."
- sien 2y agoThe Roman Empire being there was probably weirder than it falling. There hasn't been as extensive empire in that area since. It was sort of defying gravity to be there at all. Then sooner or later things would go wrong and it would fall to pieces. As in The Talking Heads song 'things fall apart, it's scientific'.
- beezlebroxxxxxx 2y agoThere is a great recent book on the Roman Empire's unique role in European history and why no other power in the region could matching it after "the fall" was, eventually, something that worked out in Europe's favour. It's called: "Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity" https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172187/escape-from-rome https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172187/es...