How Malaria Destroyed the Roman Empire
1 posted on
07/15/2018 4:42:31 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
“How Malaria Destroyed the Roman Empire”
I think it was more like the democrats of Roman times that destroyed Rome.
3 posted on
07/15/2018 4:46:54 PM PDT by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: SunkenCiv
More likely Rome was so severely weakened by this point that this epidemic pushed it over the edge...
4 posted on
07/15/2018 4:47:00 PM PDT by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: SunkenCiv
Africa is a hell of a place!
7 posted on
07/15/2018 4:50:27 PM PDT by
Rome2000
(SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES-GOD WITH US)
To: SunkenCiv
Debasing their currency didn’t help.
10 posted on
07/15/2018 5:13:13 PM PDT by
dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
To: SunkenCiv
I doubt it. They always had Malaria. It’s the kind of disease that takes a continuous toll, but doesn’t spread exponentially like the plague. There’s no reason it would suddenly wipe out an empire after 700 years. There are plenty of known causes for the decline and fall of Rome, mostly political and economic. There is no one “reason”.
12 posted on
07/15/2018 5:16:02 PM PDT by
Hugin
(Conservatism without Nationalism is ba fraud.)
To: SunkenCiv
13 posted on
07/15/2018 5:17:12 PM PDT by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: SunkenCiv
But Rome had ceased being the capital of the Empire a hundred years prior to this, when Constantine moved the center of gov’t to Constantinople?
14 posted on
07/15/2018 5:19:33 PM PDT by
Pelham
(California, Mexico's socialist colony)
To: SunkenCiv
I think it is almost certain that the plague which struck Athens was the main reason for it’s defeat in the Peloponnesian war.
Thucydides who survived the plague wrote a detailed account of it’s symptoms. It does not perfectly fit any known illness tho modern historians think it was?
Darn, I have a brain freeze and can’t recall what it is.
22 posted on
07/15/2018 6:10:47 PM PDT by
yarddog
To: SunkenCiv
Two weeks ago on Science Friday, a respected epidemiologist claimed that 50% of all deaths since the Stone Age were caused by Malaria.
28 posted on
07/15/2018 6:50:23 PM PDT by
anton
To: SunkenCiv
Malaria? What about the plague? Plague decimated Rome’s population several times.
30 posted on
07/15/2018 7:21:27 PM PDT by
Flick Lives
(Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
To: SunkenCiv
Setting up the Dole is what killed the Roman Empire....malaria was just bitter icing on the cake.
37 posted on
07/16/2018 3:18:09 AM PDT by
trebb
(Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
To: SunkenCiv
I love the smell of DDT in the morning.
38 posted on
07/16/2018 3:25:00 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
To: SunkenCiv
39 posted on
07/16/2018 3:33:16 AM PDT by
mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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