Tides of History
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Tides of History
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From the fall of the Roman Empire to the rise of the modern world: history ebbs and flows over the centuries. From @wonderymedia, get new episodes on Thursdays.










The best Byzantine emperor nickname was Basil II, "the Bulgar-Slayer," but Nikephoros II Phokas, "Pale Death of the Saracens" is a close second.

I have some thoughts about the declines and falls of imperial ruling classes, which may or may not be relevant to our current state of affairs.

So here's why I think this much-hyped paper - "The Justinianic Plague: An Inconsequential Pandemic?" is deeply wrong. This matters because its approach is superficially empirical and quantitative, but the data fundamentally doesn't speak to the problem they want it to.







