… , 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… (The different fate of the Roman empire outside Europe, and its neighbors and successors
… : “What we call the Fall of the Roman empire was an imaginative experiment that got a little …

… 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. …

… have related the rise of the Roman Empire to the Roman Climatic Optimum, and its subsequent
decline to the so-called Late Antique Little Ice Age. Climate change undoubtedly had an …

… Roman authors really believed in their visions of the future, I argue that, as seen in Marcus’s
two options for the end, … debates and thought experiments about the future. As we shall see, …

… environmental factors had on historical disease outbreaks is often speculated upon, … disease
and climate over the last 2,500 years in Mediterranean history, focusing on ancient disease …