I have read, that the Justinian Plague as you highlighted, led to the success of Muhammad's armies, signifying Allah's favor? Also, the Byzantines, seemed to be even worse at governance and taxes than the old western Romans had been 200 years before. -----Original Message----- From: 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Mon, Apr 20, 2020 9:31 pm Subject: Re: Crash course on the Fall of Rome
On 4/20/2020 2:21 PM, Lawrence Crowell wrote: Of course remember, the Eastern Roman Empire, later termed the Byzantine Empire, continued well enough. In fact under Justinian the Eastern Roman Empire reasserted itself in Rome and much of Italy in the 6th century. This did not last terribly long. The other hammer blow to western civilization was the Islamic sweep that crimped Byzantium and cut Europe from the middle east and north Africa. But also the first bubonic plague struck western Europe around 520ce. Brent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9fe274ef-3fc6-994c-5110-d0e20849be88%40verizon.net. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/1616815152.650241.1587514602063%40mail.yahoo.com.
