Interesting stuff, though the article doesn’t mention a plague during the fall of the western Roman empire, which was the area I was talking about specifically. They had plenty of plagues in other times though, and they were absolutely linked with climate change, as poor harvests and famines allow disease to spread much easier, people have weaker immune systems from lack of nutrition and they move around more as their farmland is not growing anything and they have to farm elsewhere.
I recently started listening to it lol, I’m up to episode 4 I think, I tend to drift in and out when I listen to podcasts and its very thorough so I have to keep re-listening to episodes multiple times so I can understand it. I don’t mind though.
There is also old but interesting book about social history of Rome by Geza Alfoldy, Hungarian historian who at first claim he’s not using marxist methods, but the book is really full of it.
so I got curious, and turns out there was a plague and it’s also linked to climate change https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-roman-empires-worst-plagues-were-linked-to-climate-change/
Interesting stuff, though the article doesn’t mention a plague during the fall of the western Roman empire, which was the area I was talking about specifically. They had plenty of plagues in other times though, and they were absolutely linked with climate change, as poor harvests and famines allow disease to spread much easier, people have weaker immune systems from lack of nutrition and they move around more as their farmland is not growing anything and they have to farm elsewhere.
Yup, there’s actually a really fun podcast on the fall of Rome that goes into a lot of social, environmental, and economic issues that came together https://wondery.com/shows/the-fall-of-rome-podcast/
I recently started listening to it lol, I’m up to episode 4 I think, I tend to drift in and out when I listen to podcasts and its very thorough so I have to keep re-listening to episodes multiple times so I can understand it. I don’t mind though.
Oh yeah I now what you mean. :)
There is also old but interesting book about social history of Rome by Geza Alfoldy, Hungarian historian who at first claim he’s not using marxist methods, but the book is really full of it.
neat!