… , and stable climate regime rightly known as the Roman Climate Optimum’ or RCO (40). The
chronological coincidence between the RCO and the prosperity of the Han Empire in China …

… the rise and decline of the Roman Empire. This article offers a … climate change is not denied,
societal factors are argued to have had a far greater impact on the fate of the Roman Empire…

… Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of Empire is the most recent and complete study
of environmental factors and the fall of Rome… later Roman Empire from the angle of climate …

… Ages would be characterized by a specific set of climatic and epidemiological circumstances.
The impact of both climate change and disease would be most dramatically felt by the first …

… This book is not a total history of Rome, but an exploration of the theme of empire. All the
same, empire is so central to Roman history that I have drawn on a great fund of published …

… of them critically depend on the absence of Roman-scale empire from much of Europe
throughout its post-ancient history. Recurrent empire on European soil would have interfered with …

… of the Roman Warm Period or Roman Climate Optimum has … of the Roman Empire while
also revealing short-term climate … levels associated with the Roman Climate Optimum start to …

… The paper focuses on one of the most productive wheat-growing regions in the entire Roman
Empire, the Arsinoite nome (modern Fayum) in Egypt. Towards the end of the third century …

… Sometimes they help end empires. Everyday endemic infection is hardly worth a … climate
change may have helped create a weakened population toward the end of the Roman Empire, …

There have been numerous arguments put forth to explain why societies collapse. In this
chapter we consider different approaches to understanding the risk of societal collapse. …