What if it’s just regression to the mean? Maybe the main problem wasn’t that late Rome was unusally bad, but that Rome at it’s peak was anomalously successful, and this didn’t last because technology and culture just wasn’t able to sustain an anomaly at the time?
What if it’s just regression to the mean? Maybe the main problem wasn’t that late Rome was unusally bad, but that Rome at it’s peak was anomalously successful, and this didn’t last because technology and culture just wasn’t able to sustain an anomaly at the time?