Inspired by a post I put together for 4th of July last week.
I think we need to get this hashed out by the end of the quarter. There has been a lot of talk about why Rome failed over the last couple millenia, let's just put an end to it right here on Manifold. Again, we need this by the end of the quarter, thanks.
Resolves to whoever makes the best argument in the comments as measured by number of likes on that comment.
https://patdel.substack.com/p/why-didnt-ancient-rome-have-a-space
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Since there was basically no activity in the comments, then I'm just resolving based upon what I have read and interpretation and basically echoing the article I wrote. The reason I did not select military reasons is because Rome had both expansionist and non-expansionist periods and this didn't really seem to be the core reason for them collapsing per se - same argument with the Parthanons. Poor agricultural practice seemed to be part and parcel with Elite overproduction, corruption and the erosion of political norms that went along with the slow decline and fracturing. Of course one could counter-argue this whole market and point to the Byzantine Empire as being a continuation of Ancient Rome, or state that the Holy Roman Empire or perhaps Tsarist Russia are legitimate extensions of Ancient Rome, of course that's a bit ridiculous (hopefully we don't have any Tsarists coming on here and getting pissed off about that).
@Lorxus
Every ancient empire that rejected Mithraism has collapsed, seems statistically significant to me.
mf really said this
and then also this
@Lorxus Yo, it makes sense though when you consider that the Roman Empire was way more conservative than pretty much all of modern society has been though, doesn't it? Also...what does the next part say... Non-adherents what...?
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