Re:An Ice Core Reveals the Economic Health of the Roman Empire
by abecedarius on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @07:28PM
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The giant spike around the time of Alexander's death is interesting (did they open some big new mine?), along with the relatively elevated level thereafter. It's as if the Hellenistic era and the Pax Romana were almost contiguous, with the crisis of the Roman republic as a passing interruption.
Re:An Ice Core Reveals the Economic Health of the Roman Empire
by CryptoPunk on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @04:29AM
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>>It's as if the Hellenistic era and the Pax Romana were almost contiguous,
They are commonly grouped together as phases of classical antiquity.
which has the graph and a little more information than the nytimes article