The Fate of Rome (2017) by Kyle Harper argues that climate change and pandemic disease—specifically the Antonine Plague, Plague of Cyprian, and Justinianic Plague—were primary drivers of the Roman Empire's decline and fall.
Reoriented the debate about Rome's fall toward environmental and epidemiological factors using new climate science and ancient DNA evidence.
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