Why Rome Collapsed - Barry Strauss

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Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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0:00.0	The empire is in terrible trouble.
0:03.0	There were plagues, there was inflation, there were assassinations, they were revolving door emperors.
0:08.0	You have huge extremes of wealth, and you have all these slaves as well who are skewing the economy.
0:16.0	So these are the preconditions for a series of civil wars.
0:20.0	They're waged on and off for nearly a century
0:22.7	until the end of the Republic comes. Very. Non-historians like to draw comparisons between what they
0:28.9	see in the West today and the Roman Empire. Is there a legitimacy? Absolutely. I mean, I think one of
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