The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (The Princeton History of the Ancient World)

How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman Empire

Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate …

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