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Why Rome Fell: Rejecting the Simple Answers
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Lead poisoning, Christianity, immigration, climate change — every generation finds its own explanation for Rome's fall. The multi-causal reality is messier: fiscal overextension, the third-century crisis, Diocletian's division creating structural fragility, and barbarian integration accelerating internal transformation. The Eastern Roman Empire surviving another thousand years as Byzantium suggests the "fall" of 476 CE is deeply misunderstood.
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