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The ends of Roman history / Edward J. Watts

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🗓️ 25 August 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Historian Edward J. Watts on his book "The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea" from Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-eternal-decline-and-fall-of-rome-9780190076719?cc=us&lang=en&

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0:00.0

I have a password to your memory.

0:04.0

Shall I get a?

0:06.0

The water is a gun.

0:08.0

The water is empty. Now let's get our power.

0:10.0

And what do you do? Take it back! Take it back! This is hell. First Richard please tell us what the intro music was today.

0:40.0

There's a song called, I have the password to your show account.

0:47.0

But I group called Barcelona.

0:52.0

Oh sweet, I like that.

0:52.9

That was very good.

0:53.8

Live from lands stolen from the Potawatomy people.

0:56.8

This is hell and like our history here in the United States.

1:01.5

The so-called decline and fall of the Roman

1:03.8

Empire too often erases the victims of their repeated imperial victories and

1:07.6

revivals when it was faced with challenges. In fact, the decline in fall of Rome

1:12.2

has often been invoked as a lesson for nations throughout history, starting with Rome and moving forward to this very day.

1:18.0

The Romans honored their history and its heroes, and we have inherited a history that tells us we to beware

1:24.3

decadence, moral decline and above all outsiders. However not all Roman historians

1:31.5

saw Roman history that way.

1:33.3

What they saw in the empire's repeated renewals

1:36.0

to internal and external obstacles

1:37.9

is people working together collaboratively

1:41.6

to save their beloved Rome and succeeding.

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