A few weeks back I ran across this video debunking Musk’s tweet about declining fertility rates causing the collapse of the Roman Empire. The debunk was straightforward, both the WRE and the ERE had declining fertility but one collapsed and the other didn’t. However, it went farther than that and talked about how the differences in the political economy in the west of the empire and the east affected the shifts and changes in the wake of the crisis of the third century and how that played into one side collapsing and Balkanizing while the other stayed in tact. It was an explanation I hadn’t heard before, and was well rooted in historical materialism.
Great, thanks for sharing.
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