ACOUP - Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things

To close out his analysis of the transition from the Roman imperial era to the Middle Ages, Bret takes a closer look at “things”: the trends and evidences of economy and demography and what they tell us about how real people were impacted. Not just elites but the normal, workaday people who made up the majority of the humans who lived in this period.

 

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0:00 - Things

4:00 - The Revenge of the Archaeologists

14:52 - Demographics

21:21 - Graph

25:00 - End of Graph

29:13 - Living Standards

41:50 - From High Equilibrium to Low Equilibrium

1:03:17 - What Happened?

1:16:02 - Conclusions

1:29:40 - Credits