Comments on: 210 reasons Rome fell

By: serjohn barber

serjohn barber — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:14:29 +0000

its good and its cool story

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:54:27 +0000

:sneeze:

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:11:28 +0000

Climatic deterioration covers global warming, I think, although it may have been global cooling back then.

Thank you! Right back atcha.

By: Illy T

Illy T — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:16:07 +0000

And global warming.

Fabulous, fabulous blog, by the way.

By: livius drusus

livius drusus — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 03:05:53 +0000

That might refer to the increasing power freedmen had in the imperial bureaucracy, or it might be a reference to how it became illegal to enslave people for non-payment of debt in the later empire.

I can see someone arguing that freedmen brought down the state, or making some heinous argument about damage to the economy from unpaid debts.

In the 5th c. when the Goths and Vandals were invading hard, slaves were allowed to join the army, paid with a small fee and their freedom, but I don’t think whoever it was who blamed the fall of Rome on emancipation could be talking about that, because by then Rome was in full-on fall mode.