Plagues, an Ice Age, and Rome's Decline (with Kyle Harper)

In this episode of the Toldinstone Podcast, Kyle Harper and I discuss how climate and disease shaped Roman history.

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Chapters:
0:00 The Roman Warm Period
6:30 Proxies for ancient climate
10:34 The stakes of a cooling climate
18:40 Tropical diseases in the Roman Empire
24:55 The Antonine Plague
32:23 The Plague of Cyprian
41:57 The Plague of Justinian
47:40 Impacts of the plague
56:58 Collapse of the Western Roman Empire
59:32 Talking about climate and history
1:03:57 New research