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Here they are listing 210 reasons/theories for the collapse of the Rome, would volcanoes make reason #211 ? https://www.utexas.edu/courses/rome/210reasons.html

• MichaelMoser123 11y ago
  "The natural catastrophes led to widespread famine and was responsible for the Great Justinian Plague which wiped out one third of Europeans" that's strange - the plague of Justinan was the same as the bubonic plague, what do volcano erruptions have in common with the black death? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian
  • lutorm 11y ago
    That page says "The outbreak in Constantinople was thought to have been carried to the city by infected rats on grain boats arriving from Egypt.[7] To feed its citizens, the city and outlying communities imported massive amounts of grain—mostly from Egypt. Grain ships may have been the original source of contagion, as the rat (and flea) population in Egypt thrived on feeding from the large granaries maintained by the government."