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Rome Didn't Fall — It Transformed. The 300-Year Historiography Debate
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- Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" blamed Christianity and barbarian invasions — historians have been revising this ever since - The Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) lasted until 1453, complicating any clean "fall" narrative - Climate, pandemic (Antonine Plague, Justinianic Plague), and fiscal exhaustion are modern candidates ### Why the Question Still Matters How we understand Rome's "fall" reflects how we think about civilizational decline generally. The node surveys the historiographical debate from Gibbon to Peter Heather to Bryan Ward-Perkins — and what the actual archaeological evidence shows about continuity vs. rupture in the 5th–6th centuries.
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