Scientists discover what caused the Roman Empire to collapse 1,500 years ago

Daily Mail UK ^ | November 16 ,2024 | Nikki Main

[Sequoyah101]

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.

[ansel12]

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.

[null and void]

Pax Romana = world peas

And when it failed, Rome didn't have a pot to pea in.

[SunkenCiv]

Yes, they are foreign, anti-American trolls who want that to happen.

[SunkenCiv]

I legume make that remark, at least I didn’t have to do it.

[SunkenCiv]

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.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Pretty sure it was wokeness and deficit spending. :)

[Mmogamer]

The Empire lasted until May 29 1453.

[null and void]

I legume make that remark, at least I didn’t have to do it.

You're not a pod people or you would have...

[PGR88]

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.

[Owen]

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.

[ABStrauss]

High taxes and the progeny of early Democrats.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Having sex with anything you could get to hold still was common in all pagan cultures.

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.

[Aeneas2112]

Only the Western half.

[Ezekiel]

And when it failed, Rome didn't have a pot to pea in.

Or even a legume to stand on. No pulse so yeah,

Hasta la peasta!

[Whatever Works]

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?

[null and void]

Well played, my hat’s off to you!

[reasonisfaith]

Rome never had a covenant with God Almighty.

[chuckles]

Lot's of excuses here, but God revealed the fall of Rome to Daniel thousands of years earlier than when it did. The fall of Rome was destined to fulfill the will of God. I call this Rome I and later the Antichrist will rise from what I call Rome II in the last days. Rome I didn't really fall, it just faded away, but will rise again with what God tells us is Iron mixed with clay. IMO, Rome II will rise from the eastern half of Rome I. Scripture refers to this Antichrist as "The Assyrian". All of this is covered in the book of Daniel.

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.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Very peased to meet you.

This thread has a certain Romantic ap-pea-l.


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