Originally Posted by cudaman1969
Originally Posted by PhillyRag
Originally Posted by hudsonhornet7x
Here is an old (90's) Nova episode that is a fun watch. They talk about Roman concrete.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL5bBs4bPrE&ab_channel=AbsolutelyAnything


Interesting how the European societies went to he11 after roman faded.

No organization with brain dead leaders and drug sons.


A 50 to 150 year span of bad weather may have had a strong hand in causing Rome to decline.

https://www.livescience.com/attila-the-hun-raided-to-escape-drought

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive

Hiring foreign mercenaries rather than rigorously training citizen soldiers didn’t help either.