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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Why on earth did they have anything in the Negev Desert? It was on average probably two degrees warmer than now. What a perfectly miserable horrible place to live.
Some think that America can withdraw from the world and leave it to China and Russia to rearrange things as they wish, I wonder is America would find itself eventually inside a closing vise of shrinking trade, allies and friends, and international interaction until its submission to outside power became unavoidable.
And when it failed, Rome didn't have a pot to pea in.
Yes, they are foreign, anti-American trolls who want that to happen.
I legume make that remark, at least I didn’t have to do it.
The Negev wasn’t as dry, and hadn’t become defoliated the way it was before the kibbutzim got there. The modern method of trickle irrigation can be traced to that, if memory serves.
Pretty sure it was wokeness and deficit spending. :)
The Empire lasted until May 29 1453.
You're not a pod people or you would have...
Islam didn’t appear until the 7th century
Islam certainly was the main threat to the Byzantines, but when the Germanic barbarian Odoacer overthrew the “last emperor” of Rome in 476 he didn’t even bother to declare himself or anyone else “emperor,” nor Theodoric or the Ostrogoths after him.
They all knew that power had shifted East.
Very important to understand History academe.
There is nothing that History hates more than disease. Disease destroys the pathway to a gazillion topics for PhD dissertations. They love to speculate about trade and economy and sociological this and that.
But the reality that Rome was surrounded by bogs at the time, and the temperature only needed a degree or two to become comfortable for Anopholes mosquitos, tells the tale. Malaria can only be spread by that type of mosquito and it needs bogs/swamps and a bit of heat.
And that was that for Rome.
High taxes and the progeny of early Democrats.
The idea that maybe you should control your sexual desires rather then be controlled by them is the Jewish gift to the world. And is a good part of what made advanced civilization possible.
Only the Western half.
Or even a legume to stand on. No pulse so yeah,
Hasta la peasta!
When you forget who you are and what you believe in, something (or someone) will come in to fill the void. We are designed to believe .... In something or someone.
Who or what is your God?
Well played, my hat’s off to you!
Rome never had a covenant with God Almighty.
Whether Rome fell from bad management or poor money management, it was foreseen by God and fits in the plan God has to end the world as we know it. The end of Roman power might have a lot of interesting trivia to learn, but the will of God is irresistible.
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