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A sweeping new background of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of 1 of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Destiny of Rome is the first reserve to examine the catastrophic role that weather change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome's electric power - a tale of nature's triumph over human ambition. Interweaving a grand historical narrative with cutting-edge weather science and hereditary discoveries, Kyle Harper traces how the destiny of Rome was made a decision not just by emperors, troops, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, weather instability, and damaging viruses and bacterias. He requires listeners from Rome's pinnacle in the next century, when the empire looked like an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted. Harper identifies how the Romans were resilient in the face of tremendous environmental stress, before besieged empire could no more withstand the blended challenges of any "little ice age" and repeated outbreaks of bubonic plague. A poignant reflection on humanity's seductive relationship with the surroundings, The Destiny of Rome provides a sweeping account of how one of history's best civilizations came across, endured, yet in the end succumbed to the cumulative burden of nature's violence. The example of Rome is a timely reminder that weather change and germ advancement have shaped the earth we inhabit - with techniques that are astonishing and profound. Creator bio: Kyle Harper is professor of classics and words and older vice leader and provost at the University of Oklahoma. He's the author of Slavery in the Past due Roman World, Advertising 275-425 and From Pity to Sin: The Christian Change of Sexual Morality in Past due Antiquity. He lives in Norman, Oklahoma.
