How Rome Actually Fell 200 Years Before Anyone Noticed - Dr. Kyle Harper (DemystifySci +456)

Today's guest is Professor Kyle Harper, author of The Fate of Rome, a radical reimagining of the fall of the Roman Empire. It is a saga of plague, volcanism & climate shifts, and coups, that reveals multiple fractures in the empire long before its final collapse. We touch on the crisis of the third century, currency collapse, imperial fractures, and the role of new urban diseases: the Antonine Plague, Plague of Cyprian, Plague of Justinian, and how being rich but sick pointed to critical emergencies hidden in plain sight. This is a story of blind spots and reveals a deep lesson for our present global civilization. Professor Harper's book (support us both with this link): https://link.amazon/B0dLQFRxi PATREON   / demystifysci   OUR BOOK, PARADOX LOST: https://demystifysci.com/paradoxlost SECRETARY OF NATURE : Vinyl: https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.... Download: https://secretaryofnature.bandcamp.co... YouTube:    / @secretaryofnature   Stream: Everywhere! PARADIGM DRIFT https://demystifysci.com/paradigm-dri... 00:00 Go! An Empire Split in Three 00:03:20 Why Rome Still Matters 00:12:23 Gibbon's Decline and Fall 00:19:07 Rich But Sick 00:26:27 Death in the Palace 00:32:49 City of Cesspits 00:38:26 Ancient DNA Revolution 00:46:16 Plague in the Marmots 00:52:14 Antonine Plague Inflection 00:59:28 First Fall of Rome 01:07:18 Plague of Cyprian 01:13:26 Apollo's Arrows 01:21:04 Second Roman Empire 01:26:17 Year the Sun Vanished 01:38:45 Flash and Bang 01:43:45 Hephthalite Huns Connection 01:52:24 Lightning Round #RomanEmpire #RomanHistory #AncientRome #history #ByzantineEmpire MERCH: Rock some DemystifySci gear : https://demystifysci-shop.fourthwall.... AMAZON: Do your shopping through this link: https://amzn.to/3YyoT98 DONATE: https://bit.ly/3wkPqaD SUBSTACK: https://substack.com/@UCqV4_7i9h1_V7h... RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/2be66934/podcast/rss MAILING LIST: https://bit.ly/3v3kz2S SOCIAL: Discord:   / discord   Facebook:   / demystifysci   Instagram:   / demystifysci   Twitter:   / demystifysci   MUSIC: -Shilo Delay: https://g.co/kgs/oty671