Posted on 11/16/2024 9:08:33 AM PST by SunkenCiv
They discovered that the Romans miscalculated their Persian-Sassanian opponents which caused their downward spiral, leaving them weak and allowing Islam to rise in a manner that essentially wiped out the once-powerful civilization.
The two groups were at war from 54 BC to 628 for control of territories, but the Persians and Sassanians took over Roman trade routes that were critical to their victory.
Without access to trade, the economy quickly collapsed and forced people in the Roman Empire to flee to other regions like Constantinople, the researchers discovered...
The team analyzed shipwrecks throughout the Mediterranean from multiple sites, such as Marseille, Naples, Carthage, eastern Spain and Alexandria, to better understand what caused the fall.
They identified a timeline for when Roman ships, which lined the shores by the hundreds at their pea, began to disappear and dwindled down to just dozens by the second half of the 7th century...
Previous research had suggested that a plague decimated the Roman Empire in 543 AD.
But the new study found the civilization was at the height of its power, economic output and population.
Researchers looked at the number of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean Sea and pottery uncovered at archaeology sites.
They discovered more than 16,000 pieces of pottery uncovered in Nessana - a city located in the southwest Negev desert in Israel, close to the Egyptian border.
The shards were determined to have been traded by the Roman Empire during the late 6th and early 7th centuries, which confirmed that the civilization was still thriving.
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Mohamed was born in the 6th century. I think care must be taken to distinguish between Arabs and Persians who lived before his influence and those who lived after becoming Muslim.
Yeah, their catalogs were printed on clay tablets back then. After a few years, the pile of saved catalogs could be used to build an actual barn. ;^)
I suspect this ‘research’ is an attempt to gaslight.
/bingo
Ahhhh, thanks for bringing your green decoder ring to the table. More options!
Pax Romana = world peas
🟢 🟢 🟢
Whirled peas!
It was all the fault of the first elected female Roman empress, Pelosius.
That’s what I had to decode.
Sometime people just go too far.
That’s how the Empire got smooshed!
You forgot to mention mis-gendering. That’s a civilization killer, too.
LOL
Roman food processors were hand-cranked, an intact one was excavated from a Roman wreck found near a beach, I think it was in England, probably near Hamilton.
That’s still true today. Iran has some internal issues related to Persians and Arabs.
I think Henri Prienne said much the same thing about the arrival of the “Dark” Ages in “Mohammad and Charlemagne” years ago.
”pee”, not “pea”. The yellow tide, especially during the holiday of “Urineass” was legendary.
My prior understanding had people voting to drain the treasury as the cause.
“The shards were determined to have been traded by the Roman Empire “
They printed too many pottery shards!!
They should have given peas a chance...
Net ZERO and DEI?
Illegal immigrants and school loan forgiveness?
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