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ReptileBat t1_j0g1wtr wrote

Reply to comment by YellowApricot2 in Drought encouraged Attila's Huns to attack the Roman empire, tree rings suggest by ArtOak

We think that event was around 536 AD. A volcanic eruption may have caused a global cooling that lasted several years and devastated crops. Western Rome was technically still around but largely dissolved at this point… they would have fallen with or without the temperature shift.

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rbk12spb t1_j0g9lkx wrote

Its kind of ironic that something similar happened around the time of Constantinople's fall. Environmental conditions have a huge impact

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ReptileBat t1_j0hymhr wrote

One thing you learn from studying history is that it repeats itself constantly… studying Rome is fascinating because there is a large amount of similarities with early USA history.. I’m referring to the republic (509 BC - 27 BC)

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Sternjunk t1_j0ifleg wrote

Hopefully military dictators don’t start marching their troops into Washington D.C. over and over

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rbk12spb t1_j0ldkxa wrote

Don't worry a volcano will erupt and the end will be nigh! Those mega volcanoes always know when to dump a load to end some crazy streak

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Sternjunk t1_j0lzf7j wrote

Mother Nature just won’t let us have expansive immortal empires.

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