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Islam was the plague....continues to this day.
So Islam destroyed the great roman empire. I think that there is a lesson for western civilization in their somewhere.
“They identified a timeline for when Roman ships, which lined the shores by the hundreds at their pea,...’
They must have been very tiny ships or a very large pea.
I would argue that faggotry emperors were a primary cause of the Roman Empire failures.
Something America better wake up to today.
Per AI...
Of the first 15 Roman emperors, all but one (Claudius) were reported to have had male lovers in addition to female partners. This suggests that bisexuality was extremely common among early Roman emperors.
Certainly Islam had a great deal to do with it. So did the plague of Justinian and a pair of volcanoes that resulted in mass starvation, several waves of migratory peoples from Central Asia, a fellow named Genghis Kahn, and the sack of Constantinople by Christian crusaders. Also racism, sexism, homophobia, and SUVs.
My prior understanding had immigration as the cause, and the Arabs (not Muslims) eventually plundered the remains.
“They discovered more than 16,000 pieces of pottery uncovered in Nessana”
Folks got tired of getting Pottery Barn catalogs every week.
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.
It was all the fault of the first elected female Roman empress, Pelosius.
I think Henri Prienne said much the same thing about the arrival of the “Dark” Ages in “Mohammad and Charlemagne” years ago.
Net ZERO and DEI?
Illegal immigrants and school loan forgiveness?
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.
Pretty sure it was wokeness and deficit spending. :)
High taxes and the progeny of early Democrats.
Rome never had a covenant with God Almighty.
So yes, barbarian invasions did finish off the empire - but only because the empire fatally weakened itself in the generations beforehand. It's a useful lesson for today. I believe that political advantage was only one reason for Biden's open borders policy. The other reason was to secure as many able-bodied people as possible under Washington's control, because the coming years will see resource wars and conflict over the scarcest resource of all: the declining pool of working-age humans.
The Roman Empire did not maintain the fighting spirit of the Roman Republic in which, many more of the people would stand up and fight. The Roman Empire just let it all go . . . down.
The Roman economy was held up by a then-”global” system of income-stream generators:
- trade
- mining
- agriculture
- manufacturing
- seaborne activities
The Roman government would balance policies and power, trying to keep local unrest at a dull roar, where that occurred. Usually, the Romans preferred to make a deal with the locals, an arrangment to keep some calm . . . what was calculated to maintain the income stream.
You could travel for miles across barren land somewhere, and then happen upon some kind of a plantation that was the property of the sister, of the cousin, of the brother, of some guy who was high-up in Roman society.
With the changing (and rivalries) of the guard back in Rome, the ability to hang on to such investments, also changed, would dwindle eventually.
That system cost Rome, too much money and manpower, to maintain. In the face of relentless Islamic violence.
I broke some of my mother's china into about that many pieces when I was little. It was an accident but boy did I get in trouble.