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Re:Lead poisoning probably did not cause the downfall of the... by pvg on Monday June 13, 2022 @04:19PM (#31731234)
This is more or less how more recent scholarship looks at complicated, long-term multi-modal sort of events and changes. Fate of Rome is a fairly recent book that examines things like disease and climate change, for instance:

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691166834/th...

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Re:Lead poisoning probably did not cause the downfall of the... by gloryjulio on Monday June 13, 2022 @06:29PM (#31732566)
I don't know if that's a new viewpoint. I have been hearing about how the island and frequent disasters shaped Japan for as long as I remember.
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Re:Lead poisoning probably did not cause the downfall of the... by pvg on Monday June 13, 2022 @06:47PM (#31732712)
It's definitely newer than Gibbon, in the case of the fall of the Roman empire.
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