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Xander77 posted:Long divided, must unite; long united etc etc. justinian actually came very close to doing so the reason why he failed isn't because the western Mediterrenean was inheritly unconquerable, it was because the plague of justinian hit in the middle of the reconquest and killed something like 40%-50% of the empire's population traditionally historiains have portrayed Justanian's reconquest as an exercise in imperial overstretch and inabilty to adapt to a post-Roman geopolitical situation. And contemporary accounts of the plague was thought of as exaggerated. More recent archaloegical evidence basically tells us "yes actually the plague was basically an apocalypse" no poo poo the empire suddenly lost the resources to mount what had being an affordable campaign of territory re-aquisition when half its people just drop dead
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Typo posted:justinian actually came very close to doing so quote:the plague of justinian hit in the middle of the reconquest and killed something like 40%-50% of the empire's population
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Xander77 posted:Yeah. What I meant. yeah more recent archaelogical evidence place the death toll of plagues like Justanian's and the black death much higher than what we used to think it was
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Are we sure about the effects of that plague really? Here's a 2019 paper that says it wasn't that big: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1903797116
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Oct 3, 2023 14:52
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it was just the flu, bro
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Tragicomic posted:Are we sure about the effects of that plague really? Here's a 2019 paper that says it wasn't that big: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1903797116 interesting, I will read this later my source btw is "The Fate of Rome" by Kyle Harper, seem like the effect of the plague remains a contested topic
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