1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

Erich H. Cline

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691168385/

The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of Empire
Kyle Harper 
Kyle Harper traces how the fate of Rome was decided not just by emperors, soldiers, and barbarians but also by volcanic eruptions, solar cycles, climate instability, and devastating viruses and bacteria.

He takes readers from Rome’s pinnacle in the second century, when the empire seemed an invincible superpower, to its unraveling by the seventh century, when Rome was politically fragmented and materially depleted. 

Harper describes how the Romans were resilient in the face of enormous environmental stress, until the besieged empire could no longer withstand the combined challenges of a “little ice age” and recurrent outbreaks of bubonic plague.


The Fate of Rome | Princeton University Press


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