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Kyle Harper
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Why Rome actually fell: plagues, slavery, & ice age — Kyle Harper
Kyle Harper reframes Rome’s fall as a correlated tail event: plague capable of killing 50–60% of regional populations struck alongside volcanic cooling of one to two degrees lasting decades.Rome’s strong institutions and advanced finance still produced no self-sustaining growth without science, while modern biosecurity remains exposed to poorly understood outliers such as prion and fungal diseases.