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History of Everything

63: History of Everything: The Plague that Transformed Rome

History of Everything

History of Everything

Education, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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The Antonine Plague of AD 165 to 180, also known as the Plague of Galen, was the first known pandemic impacting the Roman Empire, possibly contracted and spread by soldiers who were returning from campaign in the Near East. Scholars generally believe the plague was smallpox, although measles has also been suggested Bonus episodes as well as ad-free episodes on Patreon. Find us on Instagram. Join us on Discord. Submit your relatives on our website Join the Book Club on http://chirpbooks.com/history Get some delicious COFFEE Podcast Youtube Channel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It was something that the both of us did.

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You were very keen on a lot of the research that you were doing going into this one,

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which considering your background.

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It was my idea because I started listening to this book on like plagues and how germs shaped history, which is like.

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Wasn't even for our book club.

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She just like found this random thing and went, I'm going to go old school.

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things when I'm talking about war or other stuff like that. And I will say this. I love studying

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