Climate, Disease, and the Fall of Rome with Kyle Harper

Economics Detective Radio by Garrett M. Petersen

May 22, 202001:01:02Science & Medicine

Historian Kyle Harper joins the show to discuss his book The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire . We discuss the fall of the Roman empire and the new scientific discoveries that have shed more light...

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