Not to be alarmist, but climate change and disease were two huge causes for the fall of the Roman Empire. At its most powerful, 160 A.D., Rome suffered a terrible pandemic. More details are here
1. From what you read about in the news today, why would Rome be vulnerable to a pandemic when it was at its height in terms of land conquered and having efficient transportation routes?
2. Pandemics are a fact of our existence. Events that humanity has faced and survived. Browse the graphic below, that only lists SOME of our pandemics.
We will soon be studying the Middle Ages, when history's most deadly pandemic happened, the Black Death. Ironically, this event is credited to improving the lives of people, more on that later.
1. From what you read about in the news today, why would Rome be vulnerable to a pandemic when it was at its height in terms of land conquered and having efficient transportation routes?
2. Pandemics are a fact of our existence. Events that humanity has faced and survived. Browse the graphic below, that only lists SOME of our pandemics.
We will soon be studying the Middle Ages, when history's most deadly pandemic happened, the Black Death. Ironically, this event is credited to improving the lives of people, more on that later.
1. Because when Rome went to other cites and concurred them, and those cites were sick Rome would bring that sickness back to there city and make there city sick. (idk if i was supposed to even do this and im sorry if i did this wrong)
ReplyDeleteYes, well done Aryssa. Rome conquered wide swaths of land, and then set up an efficient transportation network, which made it much easier to transport goods and move soldiers but also made the area much more vulnerable to the spread of disease.
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