Did climate change cause the Fall of Rome? #shorts

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[TetsuShima]

Climate change actually played a role during the fall of Western Rome. Apart from the invasions of the Huns, many barbarian peoples moved to the areas belonging to the Empire because the enormous drop in temperatures made life in their place of origin practically untenable.

[lacintag]

While I think the systemic problems were the primary cause, I do think an unfavorable climate (or at least a not favorable enough climate) did put them to the forefront and made them worse. With less food there were less people and less wealth, increasing social friction and weakening the already fraught Roman economy. A weaker economy meant an unpaid army and, which meant increased civil wars and eventually no forces left to defend the Empire. So maybe it wasn't a major cause (other civilizations could and did survive it) but it could be a catalyst that exposed the weakness of the Empire for what it was.

[septimiusseverus]

Now _this_ is the content I signed up for.

[Julian-tfrb]

I agree, climate change did play an important roll in the fall of Rome. It was one of the biggest causes of the mass migrations of goths/germans, Hunnic and Celtics peoples seen at the time.

[valiox]

Also when the rhine froze over the germanic tribes would simple walk over and invade

[aetu]

i think disease played a big role in a way you wouldnt expect - subsaharan african malaria getting into the mediterranean made many previous metropolis regions like naples, rome, carthage, antioch, athens, alexandria and others malarial. this really weakened the mediterranean region and contributed to the empires power shifting to inner anatolia and pontus, along with western civilization shifting to northern europe.

[georgepapatheofilou]

I concur. I believe that climate change also played a role in central Asian tribes mass migration .

[onceamusician]

one thing to be learned from this is that the global warming of the time (the roman warm period) was NOT caused by humans and their industry

Not only that but thepurveyers of the hockey stick lie knew this, so they DELIBERATELY erased the roman and medieval warm periods as well as intervening cool periods, from the record to create the hockey stick


to summarize: history taught me tha man made global warming was a crock, and science, ever the slow and laggard child, took some years to catch up

[zippyparakeet]

Climate change also fueled the Great Migrations of the Germanic peoples along with the Hunnic invasion.

[here_for_the]

Global Warming saved both parts of Europe, & Ukraine, this winter. All over lack of energy needed fir a typical winter, which the warm weather helped everyone accept the Russians. Go Climate Change!!@!!

[here_for_the]

Global Warming saved both parts of Europe, & Ukraine, this winter. All over lack of energy needed fir a typical winter, which the warm weather helped everyone accept the Russians. Go Climate Change!!@!!